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Activists protest first eucalyptus shipment from Mozambique to Portugal and ask World Bank to stop funding ‘afforestation’/operating company

Conversion of forests and land to plantations doesn’t solve climate change The first delivery of eucalyptus trees to Aveiro in Portugal from the port of Beira in Mozambique has been received with strong criticism by Mozambican and Portuguese groups and two international coalitions. The wood is from eucalyptus plantations operated by Portucel Moçambique, a subsidiary of The […]

The capture of policy-making by the pulp and paper industry is driving mega-fires in Portugal and land grabbing in Mozambique

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 report on corporate-capture as a driver of deforestation. REGISTER HERE. Presentations will look […]

Climate Case Study: How stopping a pulp mill led to below net zero emissions in Tasmania

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 Australia’s States and Territories. In some rare good news for the climate, Tasmania’s planet […]

Testimonies of impacts from biomass energy, at the People’s Summit in Santiago de Chile

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 voices from around the world on the on-the-ground impacts from the rapidly […]

Two ways to get companies to waste less paper over the holidays

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. But what if we lived in a world where producers of goods and services stopped […]

Massive forest fires and haze in Indonesia create public health and climate crisis

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 forest fires have been burning for weeks, and drained peatlands having been smoldering, causing a […]

New maps launched to track the expansion of the biomass industry

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 global database of existing and planned energy plants running on woody biomass, and of mills […]

Tree plantation wildfires in Spain are a warning sign

Temperatures have peaked at record highs in many parts of Europe this week, and the consequences are being felt severely in Europe’s forests. As highlighted in a discussion document published by the EPN earlier this year, there is an increasingly clear link between climate change, large-scale industrial tree plantations and forest fires. In Northern Spain, […]

Warning issued to investors: Forest biomass is risky business

Briefing by environmental groups highlights serious financial, legal and reputational risks 02 May 2019 – The Environmental Paper Network, Global Forest Coalition and Biofuelwatch have today issued a Briefing to investors that highlights the serious reputational, regulatory, legal, and financial risks associated with bioenergy projects that rely on wood from forests and tree plantations. The […]