November 17, 2023
Fire brigade helicopters fly back and forth, but are unable to stop the columns of smoke rising from Ogan Komering Ilir, in the Oki district on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. In the same district stands the massive paper mill of the paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), also called ‘Oki’, which is at […]
Read MoreNovember 13, 2023
As the European Union is experiencing a sharp rise of its packaging waste, with an all time record of 188.7 kg per capita, the European Commission has responded with a proposal for Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Among its goals, this proposal aims to: Prevent the generation of unnecessary packaging waste: reduce it in […]
Read MoreNovember 10, 2023
Greenpeace Canada and Indonesia’s Auriga Nusantara have submitted a complaint to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) calling it to acknowledge that Canadian forestry giant Paper Excellence and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) are “two sides of the same coin.” FSC formally disassociated with APP in October 2007 citing “substantial, publicly available information that APP was […]
Read MoreNovember 3, 2023
Over 70 Uruguayan and international civil society organisations wrote an open letter to the Uruguayan authorities to address the largest chemical spill in the history of Uruguay. The spill occurred in a pulp mill owned by UPM, a Finnish pulp and paper company. The demands of the organisations are twofold – a total shutdown of […]
Read MoreOctober 26, 2023
Ten years ago (2013) Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) Sinarmas published its Forest Conservation Policy (FCP), in which it pledged to halt deforestation and peatland conversion as well as to respect human rights while carrying out its activities. Yesterday (25 October), on the tenth anniversary of the APP declarations, Greenpeace International published a report analyzing […]
Read MoreOctober 16, 2023
It’s Time to Go Beyond Burning Forest Biomass for Energy! #BigBadBiomass On 19th October 2023 groups from six continents took a stand against large-scale forest biomass burning to produce energy, a false climate solution. The international day of action took place one month before COP 28 in Dubai, during which the Global Renewable Energy Target […]
Read MoreOctober 12, 2023
Biofuelwatch and EPN International present: Webinar on the Pulp and Paper industry and its #BigBadBiomass investments in Europe 19th October, 14:00 – 15:00 CEST (12.00 UTC, 13.00 BST, 15.00 EEST) Pulp and paper companies are increasingly investing in biomass plants which burn sometimes very large quantities of wood additional to the energy needs […]
Read MoreOctober 5, 2023
The Hague/San Francisco, Oct 2, 2023. A coalition of NGOs has launched the Financial Exclusion Tracker: a new website that tracks which companies are being excluded by investors and banks for sustainability reasons. Most excluded corporations are barred due to links to fossil fuels, weapons or tobacco. This public dataset is the first of its […]
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2023
Every year, the United States wastes billions of sheets of paper on an unexpected source: paper prescribing information attached to pharmaceutical bottles sent to healthcare providers. Despite the existence of digital alternatives, outdated U.S. regulations still require drug manufacturers to transmit prescribing information on a paper label. The environmental and climate repercussions of this paper delivery […]
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