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A Win For Forests in Galicia

A success story of popular resistance against pulp plantations and for forest conservation. Feb 23 – Our global movement for the protection of forests celebrated a major win: after a long battle, it is now clear that the new pulp mill will not be built by the Portuguese paper company Altri. Last Friday, the Galician […]

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Take a Stance & Join Refuse Single-Use Day!

Single-Use Packaging has dominated our modern lives. The cost to our forests is immense: 3 billion are cut down every year for paper packaging alone. Single-use packaging has been on the rise for the last decades, as consumption increases and a disposability mentality spreads not only in the Global North, but increasingly in the Global […]

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Pulp profits, broken lives: Suzano’s war on Brazilian families

Suzano, the world’s largest producer of eucalyptus pulp, has requested the eviction of 600 families in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The eviction, previously blocked by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court, has now been authorized and is scheduled for June 30. Suzano is a major landholder, controlling 2.7 million hectares across seven Brazilian states and […]

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Modernizing Delivery of Investor Disclosures: A Win for Efficiency and the Environment

A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators recently introduced the Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2025, a common-sense proposal to modernize investor communications by making electronic delivery the default for required disclosures, while preserving the option for paper delivery for those who prefer it. Mandated paper delivery of investor documents consumes enormous resources. According to SIFMA, […]

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New call on banks not to finance Galician Pulp mill

26/06/2024. Palas de Rei, Ulloa, Lugo, Galicia, España © Greenpeace/Pedro Armestre BankTrack’s Dodgy Deal launched today exposes the devastating environmental and social costs of the Altri-led mega-project. Santiago de Compostela, Spain — [30 May 2025] – A new profile of the controversial Gama pulp and paper factory proposed in Lugo, Galicia, has been published today […]

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Brazil rises against eucalyptus plantations: ‘These are not forests!’

Around 1000 women from Sem Terra ocupam protest in Aracruz (Espirito Santo, Brazil). Foto: © MST   On March 13th, in the city of Aracruz (Espírito Santo, Brazil), 1,000 women from the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) occupied land owned by Suzano Papel e Celulose, the world’s largest pulp producer, to protest the environmental impact of […]

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Open Letter from 52 organisations worldwide demands the rejection of pulp mill in Galicia

52 Environmental Paper Network member organizations consider the investment not environmentally sustainable. In letters sent to the Environment and Industry authorities of the Xunta de Galicia and the Spanish Government, they warn of the serious negative impacts Altri’s new pulp mill would generate.   November 28th, 2024 – Fifty-two environmental NGOs, part of the Environmental […]

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