Flushing the Climate 2023: A Follow Up Scorecard on Which U.S. Stores are Still Selling the World’s Most Destructive Toilet Paper

by Joshua Martin | Apr 19, 2023 | Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity

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Paper Excellence whistleblowers and investigative journalism project lead to calls for parliamentary hearings in Canada

by Joshua Martin | Mar 22, 2023 | Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity

In November 2021, the relatively small and privately owned company, Paper Excellence, acquired Domtar, a major, publicly-traded North American uncoated freesheet paper and packaging producer that today has 11 pulp and paper mills and 9 manufacturing and converting...

Flushing the Climate: Which U.S. Stores are Still Selling the World’s Most Destructive Toilet Paper? 

by Joshua Martin | Aug 3, 2022 | Media Release, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity

9 years after their highly publicized Forest Conservation Policy was announced, monitoring by Indonesian and international NGOs finds Asia Pulp and Paper is failing to keep its promises, damaging the climate and harming local communities in Indonesia. EPN-North...

Indigenous Rights, Paper Giants and Armed Squads. Scenes from Land Conflicts in Brazil

by Luisa Colasimone | Jul 4, 2022 | Social Responsibilty, South America, Transparency and Integrity

Several Indigenous communities, who had reclaimed their ancestral lands taken away by companies, have recently been targeted by armed fazendeiros (agrarian latifundists) mobs in different regions of Brazil.  The official recognition of these areas as Indigenous land...

First test of ‘net zero’ bank commitments as pulp & paper giants seek finance for expansion that could torpedo Indonesia’s climate goals

by Sergio Baffoni | Dec 13, 2021 | Media Release, Pulp Finance, Transparency and Integrity

Civil society groups warn that material risks to financial institutions haven’t been disclosed New analyses released today by a coalition of civil society organizations reveal significant material risk to banks and investors exposed to two of the world’s largest pulp...

Indonesian paper giant APP takes over North American Domtar, putting the company’s credibility at risk

by Sergio Baffoni | Jul 29, 2021 | Media Release, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity

For the pulp and paper industry, it is the take-over of the decade. Domtar shareholders decided today to sell their shares to Paper Excellence and delivered the major North American uncoated freesheet paper producer (with 21 manufacturing facilities around the world,...