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Indonesian paper giant APP takes over North American Domtar, putting the company’s credibility at risk
For the pulp and paper industry, it is the take-over of the decade. Domtar shareholders decided today to sell their shares to Paper Excellence and delivered the major North American uncoated freesheet paper producer (with 21 manufacturing facilities around the world,...
Social and environmental organizations worldwide urge Domtar stakeholders to reject US$2.8 billion Paper Excellence Deal, stressing social and environmental concerns
June 24, 2021 - More than 65 organizations from North America, Indonesia and all over the world joined together today in an open letter urging Domtar shareholders, financiers, and customers to oppose the proposed acquisition of the company by rival Paper Excellence....
‘Green’ Bonds Can Worsen Social And Environmental Impacts, New Study Finds
Image: eucalyptus plantation, São Paulo. C. Gustavo Frazao/Shutterstock Berlin, 10 June 2021 - If not issued with great caution, green bonds used in the pulp sector and for industrial tree plantations are likely to carry negative social and environmental...
New IEA Roadmap is flawed: swapping burning wood for coal won’t save the climate
Berlin, 18 May 2020 – The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s roadmap released today fails to acknowledge the science that burning huge volumes of wood to substitute for burning coal is at least as emissive and climate damaging as coal in the short time frame to 2050,...
‘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...