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From Paper-First to Digital-First: Securities & Exchange Commission Takes a Major Step Forward

August 18, 2026

At a Glance The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a new approach to delivering required investor disclosures electronically. The proposal would allow electronic delivery by default while preserving investors’ ability to request paper documents, free of charge. An analysis published by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) estimated that more […]

Historic Opportunity to Reduce Unnecessary Paper: U.S. DOL Advances Electronic Delivery Reform

August 12, 2026

At a Glance The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed modernizing how employer-sponsored group health plans deliver required disclosures under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The proposal would allow group health plans to make electronic delivery the default, while preserving every participant’s right to request paper documents. Under current ERISA requirements, […]

“Green steel”, “sustainable charcoal”, and the criminalisation of rural communities in Brazil

August 4, 2026

Photo: Meeting with the Formiga People’s Association regarding the land and environmental dispute with the company Aço Verde do Brasil (AVB) in the municipality of Anapurus (MA). © Fórum Carajás This blog was a collaboration between the Environmental Paper Network, Fórum Carajás, and the Global Forest Coalition. The promise of “green steel” has become […]

Hotspots of land grabbing: fires concentrate in South Papua’s Food Estate

July 24, 2026

A new spatial analysis by the Indonesian NGO WALHI Papua, suggests that the recent surge in fire hotspots across South Papua is far from accidental. Instead, the data points to a clear pattern: most hotspots are concentrated in areas designated for the government’s “Food Estate program” and within concessions linked to National Strategic Projects (PSN). […]

Billions of pages and dollars saved. One simple policy change.

July 7, 2026

A new Environmental Paper Network analysis finds that modernizing outdated ERISA health plan disclosure rules by allowing electronic delivery by default, while preserving consumers’ right to receive paper communications, could save the equivalent of 366,000 tons of wood (more than 2 million trees) every year, reduce more than 1 billion pounds of greenhouse gas […]

Who counts carbon?

July 1, 2026

The climate crisis was driven by corporate power. Why are we letting it shape the solutions? The world relies on carbon accounting to track progress toward climate goals. From corporate net-zero commitments to government regulations and investor disclosures, one framework is an important disclosure tool: the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. Developed by the […]

Wrap up: BAN reflects on the Climate Negotiations in Bonn, 2026

June 19, 2026

The Biomass Action Network’s COP Biomass Taskforce recently completed two weeks of intensive advocacy at the UNFCCC SB64 intersessional climate negotiations in June 2026, held in Bonn, Germany. The Taskforce’s primary goal is to increase pressure and drive action to ensure biomass energy is excluded as a method for meeting international climate targets. Their efforts […]

Fibre Excellence: bioenergy subsidies have pushed the largest French pulp company to bankruptcy

June 18, 2026

Cellulose factory in St Gaudens (France). © Jean Paul Alandry, Wikipedia Commons Licence. The largest remaining pulp company in France, Fibre Excellence, has filed for bankruptcy and its fate will be known soon. Wood market distortions created by bioenergy subsidies have destroyed the company’s inefficient bioelectricity business, and the French State has been asked […]

Bioenergy in Countries’ Climate Plans

June 11, 2026

An Analysis of Biomass, Bioenergy and BECCS in Nationally Determined Contributions and Long-Term Strategies Biomass energy is increasingly common in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and Long Term Strategies (LTS). These documents – submitted to the UNFCCC by national governments – are important because they set out the high-level and detailed pathways countries plan to take […]

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