EPN Media Releases
‘Food estate’ projects eating up Indonesia’s forests: cascading threats on global environment and communities unveiled
Indonesia’s government recently announced plans for several new ‘food estate’ projects in Central Kalimantan, Papua and North Sumatra Provinces. Despite their name, these developments are not about securing ‘food’: a new report reveals that, once in place, they would...
Investors to reconsider financing Dutch RWE’s biomass and coal plants because of climate impacts, say environmental groups
Amsterdam/ Berlin, 15 February 2021 --- The environmental and climate NGO, the Environmental Paper Network, [1] and Dutch campaigners have asked international financiers of RWE to reconsider their investment in the energy company’s Dutch coal and biomass-burning power...
EPN and Leading Experts Launch SolvingPackaging.org to Accelerate the Shift to Sustainable Packaging
Asheville, NC - The Environmental Paper Network-North America launched SolvingPackaging.org today to accelerate the solutions to the packaging crisis. SolvingPackaging.org brings together the expertise of leading conservation, zero waste and public health...
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,...
APRIL Group Keeps Destroying Peatlands and Natural Rainforests Amid Covid-19
Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL) is Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper producer, and one of the world’s largest producers of rayon, a textile widely used by the fashion industry. After a decade of business expansion at the cost of...
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,...