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Welcome to the Chinese Environmental Paper Network

We are very excited to be working with the Chinese Environmental Paper Network, a sister network of environmental and human rights groups in China. You can read more about it here.

2012 Annual Report

The European Environmental Paper Network had a good year in 2012, and better is to come, as the 2012 Annual Report makes clear. It summarises our priority work co-ordinating campaigning to protect the Indonesian rainforests and their communities from the ravages of the paper industry. It also introduces our work to reduce paper consumption. It […]

Goodbye Doreen

We are saddened to report the tragic death of Doreen MacIntyre at the end of 2012. Doreen joined our team just a few months ago, to help us to produce a scorecard rating UK organisations on their paper saving efforts. We are still shocked and stunned by her death, but we know she would have […]

Paper from peatlands is bad for the climate

One of the biggest sources of carbon emissions in the life-cycle of paper can come right at the start, when trees that will be used as fibre for paper are cut from forests or plantations growing on peatlands. Peaty soils are dense with carbon – globally there is even more carbon stored underground in peat […]

Priorities renewed – using less paper and stopping deforestation in Indonesia

At our recent meeting in Portugal, the EEPN had a session to find out what priorities the membership recommends. These recommendations are currently being consulted on with the members who couldn’t be at that meeting, but we are pleased that there were very strong, clear signals about the issues most members think should be our […]

Four more new members

We are very happy to welcome four new member organisations to the European Environmental Paper Network: Friends of the Earth Europe, based in Brussels, Euronatura, based in Portugal, PanEco, based in Switzerland, and the Chlorine Free Products Association, based in the USA. We look forward to working with these important campaign organisations towards a more […]

Welcome to our new members

Welcome to the most recent new members of the European Environmental Paper Networ: Save the Rhino, based in the UK, and Forum Ecologie & Papier, based in Germany. Both organisations have become involved through our campaign about Asia Pulp and Paper, both being concerned about the destruction of forests in Indonesia in order to create […]

EEPN has a new co-ordinator

Some of you will remember Mandy Haggith, who was the co-ordinator of the EEPN from the early days, when we wrote our common vision together, until 2009. She’s back. The European Environmental Paper Network has been ably guided through the past couple of years by Daniel Hausknost, and we are all sorry to see him […]