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In the Red: Bank policies fail to ensure they will avoid irresponsible investment in the paper industry

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Too much hot air: paper’s climate change impacts in Indonesia

A new report ‘Too Much Hot Air‘, details the shocking climate change impacts of the Indonesian pulp and paper industry through damage to peatlands, and highlights solutions in the form of ‘paludiculture’, with examples of good practice from local communities. The report is a discussion document, and it concludes with questions about we can […]

Too Much Hot Air – Paper’s Climate Change Impacts in Indonesia

A new report ‘Too Much Hot Air‘, details the shocking climate change impacts of the Indonesian pulp and paper industry through damage to peatlands, and highlights solutions in the form of ‘paludiculture’, with examples of good practice from local communities. The report is a discussion document, and it concludes with questions about how we can […]

EPN Webinar on Green Paper, Red Lines

‘Green Paper, Red Lines’ is a set of requirements for financiers to avoid financing pulp and paper companies that are unsustainable or unethical. This webinar explains them, gives an example of the situation they are intended to avoid, and describes our process for assessing bank policies against them, which is being undertaken in partnership with […]

EPN Webinar on Peatlands and the Pulp and Paper Industry in Indonesia

This EPN webniar explains that peatlands (~organic soils) worldwide store twice as much carbon as all forest biomass, although they cover only a tenth of the land. 15% of this land has been degraded, causing huge GHG emissions, peatland fires (in Russia and Indonesia) and subsidence and flooding in parts of (Europe, Indonesia and Malaysia). […]

Paludiculture Workshop: Local community solutions to sustaining peatlands in Indonesia

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NGO Letter: Peatland management of APRIL is not sustainable

A group of NGO sent a letter to the Indonesian paper giant Asia Pacific Resources Limited (APRIL) on peat management in the Kampar Peninsula. APRIL recently announced a peatland restoration project. However, at the same time, the cmpany is continuing to drain peatlands in the same region, for pulp plantations. The letter reminders to APRIL […]

Is Asia Pulp & Paper a responsible company?

We are often asked whether it is OK to buy paper from Indonesia, now that the biggest Indonesian pulp and papers have committed to a moratorium on rainforest logging. Here, Sergio Baffoni explains why it is still too early. On February 5, 2013, after decades of environmental and social conflicts in Indonesia, Asia Pulp & […]

A hope for peatland protection, no more business as usual on peat

EoF News (PEKANBARU)—Today, Eyes on the Forest commended the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for issuing a letter (S.494/MENLHK-PHPL/2015) and instructions (S.661/Menlhk-Sekjen/Rokum/2015) regarding peat management for the prevention and control of fire. This is an unprecedented, bold move by the Ministry, in reaction to the country’s devastating peat fires this year. Following various pledges and […]