April 24, 2024
Today the European Parliament voted on the final deal of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), which was stripped of its most meaningful provisions to tackle the growing amount of paper packaging waste. The paper packaging industry lobbied ruthlessly and managed to eliminate the ban on throw-away paper packaging, including grouped packaging (such as […]
Read MoreMarch 28, 2024
On Friday, the 22nd of March, Sorbatua Siallagan, the head of the Dolok Parmonangan indigenous community in North Sumatra, was approached by ten men in plain clothes, forced into a black car and taken away, while in the village to buy some fertilizer for his community. The men turned out to be police agents, who […]
Read MoreMarch 18, 2024
Destruction calls into question “zero-deforestation” commitment of the world’s largest viscose producer Jakarta, March 18, 2024 – Today, a coalition of leading environmental organizations have released the report Deforestation Anonymous that sheds light on the alarming resurgence of deforestation in Indonesia, driven by PT Mayawana Persada in Indonesian Borneo. The evidence presented in the report […]
Read MoreMarch 5, 2024
The final EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation was agreed in trilogue despite being stripped of its most pressing provisions. (March 5 2024, Brussels) – Yesterday the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union released the final text of the long-awaited compromise on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Negotiations between the European […]
Read MoreFebruary 21, 2024
Glenn Beltz/flicker (CC BY 2.0) At least 46 people have died, and more than 1,100 homes have been destroyed in the worst forest fires to hit Chile in a decade. In the first week of February, the fires have been commonly attributed to climate change. This is correct, but only part of the truth. What […]
Read MoreJanuary 17, 2024
This used to be one of the most beautiful places in the world, now it looks like a circle of hell. Tarakan is located on an island three hours by boat from the Malaysian border, facing the estuary of the Sepauk River, an idyllic picture of twisted loops bordered by forests and ponds.In that idyllic […]
Read MoreDecember 22, 2023
On 28 November, Mr. Antônio Sapezeiro, leader of the Quilombola community of Nova Vista in Sapê do Norte, São Mateus, (Espirito Santo, Brazil) was filmed lying, immobilised and defenceless, on the concrete road, surrounded by Suzano security guards and military police officers called by them. This is not uncommon behaviour for Suzano, the biggest pulp […]
Read MoreDecember 19, 2023
The EU environment ministers agreed on a general approach for the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation today. In the context of both record levels of packaging waste and unprecedented lobbying from the single use packaging industry, Member States resisted the most aggressive attempts to water down or delete provisions aiming to prevent waste and kick-start […]
Read MoreDecember 13, 2023
– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Big biomass appears in an invisibility cloak in the COP28 decision COP28 decision text heightens concern over big biomass energy expansion, its high carbon emissions and community impacts. 13 December, 2023 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Concerns about the dramatic escalation of big biomass energy have […]
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