E-fuels are being promoted as a climate solution for aviation, shipping, and road transport. There are a variety of e-fuels, but beware! Some of them use woody biomass in their production and are another manifestation of the failed industrial biomass energy model – dressed up as innovation. A new brief from BAN exposes the flaws […]
Read MoreProtesters rally outside Finlandia Hall during Stora Enso AGM Helsinki, Finland — Activists gathered outside Finlandia Hall in central Helsinki to raise awareness about alleged environmental and human rights violations linked to the Nordic forestry giant Stora Enso, as the company’s annual general meeting and shareholders’ assembly took place inside. Demonstrators distributed leaflets to attendees […]
Read MoreSingle-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 […]
Read MoreCredits: Jon Andersson The omnibus reaps yet another victim: forests and their protections against the endless consumption of pulp and paper. 2025 December 5th – Yesterday, the Council of the EU, the European Parliament and the European Commission decided to pass a blank check to the pulp and paper sector. In yesterday’s trilogue meetings […]
Read MoreOn Thursday, 27 November 2025, the European Commission published the EU Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy. As its name suggests, this strategy aimed to combine the objectives of increasing competitiveness of the European Union’s economy with the sustainable use of natural resources. So much for theory. In practice, the EU’s new […]
Read MoreA month ago, a new #ForestScandal broke out in Sweden: Nestlé, Essity and DS Smith were exposed as buying pulp from operations destroying Sweden’s last unprotected natural forests and interfering with indigenous communities of the Sámi people, the only remaining European indigenous people. The culprit? The Swedish forest company Swedish Cellulosa AB (SCA), Europe’s largest private […]
Read MoreA Hike Through the Mountains As a frequent user of metaphors, I often compare my work at EPN to a hike through the mountains. It’s an environmental journey with a long trail ahead: our planet is in a climate and biodiversity crisis, and as temperatures continue to reach record highs, we face extreme weather, natural […]
Read MoreThank You for Joining the Break Big Biomass Webinar! Over 600 people participated in the Break Big Biomass Webinar on April 7, 2025 to learn about the harmful environmental and health impacts of industrial biomass energy. We discussed the detrimental effects that this industry has imposed on communities, and explored actionable steps to address these […]
Read MoreAn article in Mongabay entitled “Forest biomass growth to soar through 2030, impacting tropical forests”, highlights EPN’s new Biomass Threat Maps and the report “Burning Up the Biosphere” published by the Biomass Action Network. The piece, by Justin Catanoso, states: The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge, according to a […]
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