November 5, 2026
The Biomass Action Network welcomes the efforts of the COP30 Presidency in developing two important roadmaps: the one on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Energy Systems in a Just, Orderly and Equitable Manner and the other on Enhancing Efforts Towards Halting and Reversing Deforestation and Forest Degradation by 2030. The two sister roadmaps send […]
Read MoreNovember 2, 2026
The UN Biodiversity meeting took place over the last two weeks in Armenia. Expectations were high. Some reports called this a “reset” for the global nature process. Armenia, which holds the COP presidency, rightly set ambition for the meeting high. But for a reset moment, the lack of progress and tired old objections from the […]
Read MoreOctober 27, 2026
As delegates gathered in Yerevan for the second week of CBD COP17, Friends of the Earth and Third World Network launched the Corporate Destroyers of Biodiversity campaign at a press conference highlighting the corporate actors driving biodiversity loss. The campaign published the first six of a series of factsheets examining how different business sectors contribute […]
Read MoreOctober 22, 2026
On the International Day of Action on Big Biomass, EPN’s Biomass Action Network Asia-Pacific working group published a report on Indonesia’s Gorontalo forests and how they are being destroyed for the expansion of the biomass energy industry. This report was the work of Trend Asia, Solutions for Our Climate, Global Environmental Forum, Friends of the […]
Read MoreOctober 20, 2026
Former Toba Pulp Lestari director suspect in US$ 113.3 million transfer pricing corruption case Jakarta, October 16, 2026 — Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office has named Anwar Lawden, a former director and corporate secretary of the pulp & paper company PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL), as a suspect in an alleged transfer pricing corruption […]
Read MoreOctober 9, 2026
A call to immediately stop the heavy machinery At the opening of the International Sustainability Forum (ISF) in Jakarta on 6 October, Special Presidential Envoy Hashim Djojohadikusumo and Mari Pangestu announced that the Indonesian government would no longer expand ‘food estates’ in forest areas and would end deforestation for the expansion of food and […]
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2026
An investigation by Zembla, broadcast on 10 September 2026, revealed that wood pellets certified as sawmill residues were, in fact, made from whole trees felled in Malaysian rainforests or from plantations that replaced them. These wood pellets were then shipped to the Netherlands and burned by the German energy giant RWE in Dutch power stations […]
Read MoreSeptember 24, 2026
Veracel, Suzano and Stora Enso, the trajectory from land grabbing to corporate property A recent scientific study sheds new light on the pulp & paper industry expansion in the far south of Bahia, Brazil. The research examines not only questions surrounding the origin and validity of land titles associated with the company, but also […]
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2026
More than 40 NGOs have come together to call on the EU to stop incentivising biomass in the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). They have produced a shared position paper calling on the EU to stop incentivising biomass in EU renewable energy and climate legislation because it: Makes the climate crisis […]
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