A new briefing from the Environmental Paper Network, Bank Information Center (BIC), AXIAL Naturaleza y Cultura, Instituto Maira, and Heñoi highlights the impacts of a proposed project by the World Bank aimed at expanding industrial tree plantations in Paraguay. The project is being put forward by the World Bank’s development arm, IBRD (International Bank for […]
Read MoreEleven civil society organizations issued a joint statement commending the Canadian natural resources committee for summoning Jackson Wijaya, owner of Domtar (formerly Paper Excellence), along with Canada’s industry minister and Forest Stewardship Council representatives, to testify regarding Domtar’s ties to Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). Domtar recently confirmed Wijaya’s acquisition of sole control of […]
Read MoreFOR RELEASE: Thursday 7 November Biomass Action Network calls for Real Solutions COP in Baku Countries must find real solutions for climate action and climate finance and reject false solutions such as industrial bioenergy, says the Biomass Action Network (BAN) as the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Convention is set to […]
Read MoreFOR RELEASE: Thursday 24 October CBD COP16 this week can eliminate harmful biomass energy subsidies Subsidies for large-scale centralised energy generation from forest biomass must be phased out urgently starting next year as nations agreed in Target 18 (see below) of the 2022 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), according to the Biomass Action Network at CBD […]
Read MoreAs the Biodiversity COP in Cali gets underway today, members of the Biomass Action Network’s Latin-America Working Group have an important message to send policy makers. As organized peoples and communities of Latin America and the Caribbean, our Abya Yala, we declare: The biomass industry is another threat to our lives! We do not want […]
Read MoreNGOs around the world are participating in a global wave of action against large-scale biomass energy, to tell world leaders at COP16 that Bioenergy Destroys Biodiversity. On the 21st of October 2024 environmental and civil society groups from around the world will take a stand against large-scale forest biomass burning to produce energy. The international […]
Read MoreThis was the slogan on a banner at one of many protests taking place throughout Portugal on Sunday 22nd of September, in response to wildfires which ravaged parts of the country during the previous week (15th – 19th). The protests were called by Emergência Florestal, a decentralised network of organisations and individuals located throughout Portugal’s […]
Read MoreA new report by Environmental Paper Network International debunks the story that paper is ‘green’ and ‘renewable’. Evidence piles up on the ecological and human impacts of the pulp expansion frenzy. 16 July 2024 – Today, the Environmental Paper Network International has launched a daunting report on Suzano, the world’s largest producer of eucalyptus pulp and […]
Read MoreThe meetings of the Subsidiary Bodies to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) that took place in May in Nairobi ended in disarray, as Parties ended up in polarized discussions
about financial resources and other means of implementation for the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) that was adopted in December 2022. As a
result, no agreement was reached on many issues.
