Media Release - Environmental Paper Network

Over 170 Groups Worldwide Stand Up Against Forest Biomass, a False Climate Solution

Activists Call on UN Climate Conference to Fix Flawed GHG Accounting Rules For immediate release Sydney/Tokyo/Delhi/Johannesburg/Brussels/Washington and more, 21st October 2021 – Leading into COP 26, over 170 non-government organisations worldwide have been taking action today – the International Day of Action on Biomass – to highlight the impacts of biomass energy, a false solution […]

Pulp mill in Sumatra connected to fires and respiratory illness plans to triple production

For Immediate Release Palembang – Today, over 30 civil society organisations sent a letter to investors of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), part of the Sinar Mas Group, explaining why the expansion of APP’s OKI Pulp and Paper Mill in Sumatra, Indonesia would risk the respiratory health of millions of people in Southeast Asia and […]

Indonesian paper giant APP takes over North American Domtar, putting the company’s credibility at risk

For the pulp and paper industry, it is the take-over of the decade. Domtar shareholders decided today to sell their shares to Paper Excellence and delivered the major North American uncoated freesheet paper producer (with 21 manufacturing facilities around the world, 6,400 employees, and customers in 50 countries) to one of the most controversial paper […]

Social and environmental organizations worldwide urge Domtar stakeholders to reject US$2.8 billion Paper Excellence Deal, stressing social and environmental concerns

June 24, 2021 – More than 65 organizations from North America, Indonesia and all over the world joined together today in an open letter urging Domtar shareholders, financiers, and customers to oppose the proposed acquisition of the company by rival Paper Excellence. The open letter details why the acquisition represents a grave reputational and financial […]

‘Green’ Bonds Can Worsen Social And Environmental Impacts, New Study Finds

Image: eucalyptus plantation, São Paulo. C. Gustavo Frazao/Shutterstock Berlin, 10 June 2021 – If not issued with great caution, green bonds used in the pulp sector and for industrial tree plantations are likely to carry negative social and environmental impacts, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN).(1) This could result […]

New IEA Roadmap is flawed: swapping burning wood for coal won’t save the climate

Berlin, 18 May 2020 – The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s roadmap released today fails to acknowledge the science that burning huge volumes of wood to substitute for burning coal is at least as emissive and climate damaging as coal in the short time frame to 2050, according to the global Environmental Paper Network (EPN). “The simple […]

‘Food estate’ projects eating up Indonesia’s forests: cascading threats on global environment and communities unveiled

Indonesia’s government recently announced plans for several new ‘food estate’ projects in Central Kalimantan, Papua and North Sumatra Provinces. Despite their name, these developments are not about securing ‘food’: a new report reveals that, once in place, they would wipe out hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, including some of the world’s last remaining […]

Investors to reconsider financing Dutch RWE’s biomass and coal plants because of climate impacts, say environmental groups

Amsterdam/ Berlin, 15 February 2021 — The environmental and climate NGO, the Environmental Paper Network, [1] and Dutch campaigners have asked international financiers of RWE to reconsider their investment in the energy company’s Dutch coal and biomass-burning power plants, in light of the serious impacts on the climate, people and on forests. The letter was […]

EPN and Leading Experts Launch SolvingPackaging.org to Accelerate the Shift to Sustainable Packaging

Asheville, NC – The Environmental Paper Network-North America launched SolvingPackaging.org today to accelerate the solutions to the packaging crisis. SolvingPackaging.org brings together the expertise of leading conservation, zero waste and public health organizations, with the inspiration of sustainable packaging success stories and cutting-edge business innovations. It offers case studies, guidance, and other resources for companies, […]