by Joshua Martin | Mar 13, 2019 | Responsible Virgin Fibre, Transparency and Integrity, Uncategorized
Today, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) celebrates the sixth anniversary of APP’s Forest Conservation Policy (FCP). For six years NGOs have been monitoring the FCP implementation and providing suggestions for improvement of the policy as well as its implementation. With...
by Sergio Baffoni | Mar 1, 2019 | Reducing Consumption, Responsible Virgin Fibre
At a time when conserving and growing forests to fight climate change is a clear and critical opportunity, we are seeing plans and investments for quite the opposite. After over two years of stagnation, the virgin pulp industry is booming. In the list that follows...
by Joshua Martin | Feb 12, 2019 | Responsible Virgin Fibre, Transparency and Integrity
New report says pulp companies and government are not transparent with restoration plans for fire-prone peatlands, and its analysis shows the restoration obligations of pulp producers APP and APRIL. In 2016, the government of Indonesia announced a new regulation...
by Sergio Baffoni | Jan 16, 2019 | Responsible Virgin Fibre, Transparency and Integrity
Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has been found in a new satellite imagery analysis by Foresthints.news to have exploited recovering tropical peatlands, which were previously drained by the company more than a decade ago, for pulpwood expansion. The practice of re-draining...
by Sergio Baffoni | Oct 17, 2018 | Responsible Virgin Fibre
Asia Pacific Rayon (APR), a new company developed to produce viscose for the textile industry, is the sister company of the Indonesian pulp & paper giant APRIL (Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd) and part of the conglomerate Royal Golden Eagle...
by Sergio Baffoni | Aug 16, 2018 | EPN-International, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Transparency and Integrity, Uncategorized
A new report from a coalition of non-profit organizations shows that global paper giants Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL) are violating their zero-deforestation policy. In addition, a few days ago the Forest...
