by Merel van der Mark | Sep 9, 2019 | EPN-International, Transparency and Integrity
The Environmental Paper Network (EPN) has submitted a complaint to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on possible violations of disclosure requirements by Kiu Hung International Holdings Limited (Kiu Hung).[1] This company is interested in buying the Amazar pulp mill...
by Sini Erajaa | Sep 3, 2019 | EPN-International, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Transparency and Integrity
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...
by Merel van der Mark | Aug 5, 2019 | EPN-International, Transparency and Integrity
Over one hundred Uruguayan, Finnish and International organizations have signed a joint statement against the plans of the Finnish pulp producer UPM to build a new pulp mill in Uruguay. The mill would have a capacity to produce 2.1 million tonnes of pulp a year....
by Merel van der Mark | Jul 18, 2019 | EPN-International, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity
During a roundtable debate with environmental experts from political parties that are participating in the upcoming national elections in Uruguay, all participants expressed their concerns regarding the contract signed between the Government and UPM, the multinational...
by Joshua Martin | Jul 16, 2019 | EPN-North America, Maximise Recycled, Reducing Consumption, Transparency and Integrity
As the owner and manager of the Paper Calculator, the Environmental Paper Network would like to take this opportunity to address recent communications from paper industry-related groups that include misleading and inaccurate information regarding the Paper Calculator....
by Merel van der Mark | Jul 1, 2019 | EPN-International, Pulp Finance, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibilty, Transparency and Integrity, Uncategorized
In Uruguay, the citizen opposition to a new pulp mill planned by the Finnish paper giant UPM continues to grow. Last Friday, a citizen movement calling itself as the “national coordination of social organisations against UPM”, representing more than 40...
