by Oliver Munnion | Jan 11, 2021 | Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty
This article is a guest post by Oliver Munnion, Global Forest Coalition, Portugal. It was originally published in Forest Cover 63, December 2020. Global Forest Coalition will host a webinar on Thursday 21st January at 3pm Amsterdam time (CET) to explore their new...
by Peg Putt | Jul 14, 2020 | Reduce Greenhouse Gases
The community victory in 2011 which halted Gunns Ltd’s devastating pulp mill from being built in the state of Tasmania, Australia has some years later produced a stunning climate result, which was revealed in the recently released Greenhouse Gas Inventories of...
by Sergio Baffoni | Dec 9, 2019 | Our Network, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, South America
The biomass industry, fueled by public subsidies, is a growing threat to forests and to effectively addressing the climate crisis. During a workshop organized by EPN and the Global Forest Coalition at the People’s Summit, in Santiago de Chile, testimonies were shared...
by Anne Pernick | Nov 27, 2019 | EPN-North America, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Reducing Consumption, Social Responsibilty
Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash Heading into the year-end holidays our list of to-do’s may include some gift-giving, some special cooking, and a lot of trying to save the world with our individual choices to cut consumption and avoid throwaway products and packaging....
by Joshua Martin | Sep 19, 2019 | Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Responsible Virgin Fibre
The world’s tropical rainforests and the people who live in them are suffering continued tragedy from forest fires that are driven by the demand for agricultural commodities, including timber for pulp to make viscose, paper and packaging. In Indonesia, massive...
by Sini Erajaa | Sep 3, 2019 | EPN-International, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Transparency and Integrity
The Environmental Paper Network’s Working Group on Forests, Climate and Biomass has today launched new tools to track and monitor the expanding biomass energy and pellet industries. The two maps published make publicly available for the first time an extensive...
