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Shadow Integration: When “Sustainable” Supply Chains Hide Deforestation

In today’s global economy, sustainability sells. Corporations proudly promote “deforestation-free” commitments, and consumers increasingly expect ethical sourcing behind their everyday products. What happens when those claims don’t match reality? A recent investigation by The Gecko Project exposes a troubling pattern: major corporations may be maintaining clean reputations on paper while quietly benefiting from environmental destruction […]

Pulping Unfair Incentives: Separating EU Policies from Paper Industry Interests

This briefing documents the subsidies flowing to the pulp and paper sector, their social and ecological impacts in Finland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, and offers a credible alternative vision for where that funding should go. It finds that although the pulp and paper industry is dominated by a few giant conglomerates, it has an outsized and […]

Put a forest in your tank: Why e-fuels aren’t necessarily a climate solution

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 […]

Forests, Profits, and Displacement: The Brazil Land Disputes Shadowing Stora Enso

Protesters 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 […]

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 […]

Deforestation under the Christmas tree – EUDR & Books – Omnibus brings back deforestation

Credits: 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 […]

The EU Bioeconomy Strategy – growth at the expense of the biosphere

On 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 […]

Pressure Mounts on Swedish pulp company SCA: Nestlé is the first domino to fall

A 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 […]

Looking Back and Looking Forward

A 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 […]