EPN Media Releases
Paper giant APP evades voluntary forest protection pledges, binding safeguards by banks and buyers needed
Jakarta/Berlin, 3 December 2020 - New evidence indicates that buyers and banks’ ineffective due diligence systems have allowed Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a global market paper supplier, to ignore its own forest conservation and human rights pledges, with the result...
New evidence of profit shifting in Indonesia’s pulp sector
Jakarta, Indonesia, 3 November 2020 – A coalition of 25 civil society groups published evidence (1) of pulp industry’s practices of profit shifting in order to reduce corporate tax bills (2). The organisations called on the Government of Indonesia to crack down on...
APRIL’s Links with Supplier in Borneo Undercut “No Deforestation” Pledge
Today a coalition of civil society organisations published a report about deforestation and peatlands degradation on the rainforest-rich island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Based on analysis using satellite imagery, the report documents significant deforestation,...
Civil society denounces Indonesia’s government siding with companies threatening Indigenous Peoples, endangered species and the environment
Jakarta, 4 June 2020 - The National Coalition to Preserve Natural Resources (GN-PSDA) has called on the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry to stop ignoring the environmental and criminal destruction caused by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world’s...
Pulp and Bioenergy Company’s Claim of Green Leadership Fails Fact Check
Berlin, 24 March 2020 - A discussion document released by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) unveils the social and environmental risks associated with the Finnish company UPM-Kymmene and its operations in Uruguay, and highlights the importance of strong...
Global Finance Sector Failing to Apply Conservation Criteria to Pulp and Paper Funding
*** The Environmental Paper Network and our 156 member organisations want to acknowledge the extraordinary circumstances of this moment, given the terrible impacts of COVID-19 for people around the world. The urgent need to respond to the pandemic and its impacts is...
Newly Published Investigative Research Reveals Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) Involved in Hundreds of Conflicts with Local Communities in Indonesia
San Francisco, CA – New research conducted by a coalition of Indonesian organisations and the Environmental Paper Network has found that the second-largest Indonesian paper company Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) is involved in hundreds of...
Pulp Industry Locks in Fire Risk on Indonesia’s Peatlands
Jakarta, Indonesia - Today, a coalition of civil society organizations published Perpetual Haze, a report analysing the role of Indonesia’s pulp industry in recurring fire and haze episodes affecting the Southeast Asian region. Through the end of October 2019,...
Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL Groups continued in 2018 to source wood from controversial supplier owned by Djarum Group
Jakarta - The Koalisi Anti Mafia Hutan released a report today finding that Indonesia’s two largest pulp and paper producers – the Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) groups -- violated their zero-deforestation...
New Study Reveals Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Involved in Hundreds of Conflicts with Local Communities as Haze Crisis in Indonesia Intensifies
APP found to be one of the companies responsible for the forest fires in Indonesia; NGOs call on APP to uphold it’s promises for both communities and forests San Francisco, CA - A new report conducted by a coalition of Indonesian organizations and the Environmental...
New data reveals shocking scale of planned forest biomass industry growth
Threat map report shows biomass industry set to increase 250% in next decade - threatening both the fight against climate change and forests globally. MEDIA RELEASE | For Immediate Release (29 November 2018) - There is a new and growing threat to the world’s forests,...
Over 120 groups from around the world declare large scale forest biomass energy a dangerous ‘delusion’
Organisations from over 30 countries release statement calling for an end to monetary and policy support for biomass (24 October 2018) - A loud chorus of civil society organisations representing hundreds of thousands of people around the world has come together to...
