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Burning Up the Biosphere: A Global Threat Map of Biomass Energy Development, 2024 update

New Report Exposes Massive Expansion and Serious Detrimental Impacts of Global Biomass Industry Misleadingly Defined as “Renewable” Download the Threat Map 2 page explanatory graphic A new report “Burning up the Biosphere: A Global Threat Map of Biomass Energy Development” released by the Biomass Action Network of EPN International reveals that, according to the IEA’s […]

Expanding poverty, not prosperity: the impacts of the World Bank’s industrial tree plantations in Paraguay

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 […]

Joint Statement: Organizations Applaud Canada’s Call for Domtar Owner to Address APP Ties

Eleven 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 […]

Biomass Action Network calls for Real Solutions at the upcoming COP29 in Baku

FOR 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 […]

CBD COP16 this week can eliminate harmful biomass energy subsidies

FOR 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 […]

A declaration on biomass by BAN’s Latin-America working group

As 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 […]

Media Release: International day of action shines spotlight on the impacts of big biomass

NGOs 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 […]

Portugal burns, but who benefits? The Pulp and Paper and Biomass industries.

This 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 […]

Pulp Fiction: the dystopian reality of the origin of your paper

A 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 […]