September 11, 2023
European citizens want less waste, be it plastic or paper On September 12th 2023, European citizens and organizations from all over the world joined hands to say we need to Make Throw Away Go Away. From Spain to Poland to France, from Germany to Portugal to Sweden, from Indonesia to Italy, from Germany to Finland […]
Read MoreJuly 20, 2023
The European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), led by Italian Socialist MEP Patrizia Toia, yesterday voted to accept changes to the new EU Packaging Regulation that would strip out many of the remaining innovative aspects of the rules. It is a cruel irony that the EU Parliamentary committee responsible for innovation, yesterday retrograded […]
Read MoreJuly 5, 2023
Deforestation is expanding again in the tropical rainforests of Borneo. And indigenous peoples are not backing down from defending their land. The timber company PT Mayawana Persada is expanding its plantations in the forests of the Dayak indigenous people of Kualan Hilir. PT Mayawana Persada is linked to the conglomerate controlled by Sukanto Tanoto, which also owns APRIL […]
Read MoreJune 29, 2023
The European businesses making reuse a reality.
Read MoreJune 20, 2023
Image: “No to power stations – Help us to stop contamination in Parral” from the “No a la thermoelectrica Parral” community campaign. Guest Post by Daniel Santander Urrutia, Geophysicist and member of Colectivo Viento Sur, Defensores Medioambiente Parral and EPN’s Biomass Working Group. In 2021, construction of La Gloria biomass incineration power plant began in […]
Read MoreJune 6, 2023
Media Release from the Biomass Working Group at the Bonn Climate Conference on June 6th 2023. Download it here. Funding the burning of forest wood at scale in biomass energy generators, is a prime example of the least effective and most destructive way to deploy forests to combat climate change, according to the Forests, Climate […]
Read MoreJune 3, 2023
One year ago, Environmental Paper Network, Mighty Earth, Pusaka, Solutions for Our Climate, Korean Federation for Environmental Movement and Advocates for Public Interest Law released a report exposing the devastation of pristine forests in the remote province of Papua, Indonesia, by the Korean company, Moorim Paper. Immediately after the release of the report, the company […]
Read MoreMay 30, 2023
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Read MoreMay 22, 2023
Jakarta, 23 May 2023 – A new investigative report, Pulping Borneo, finds that the Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) Group, the world’s largest viscose producer and major paper products company, continues to rely on deforestation in its supply chain despite a high-profile commitment to “No-Deforestation”. The report, co-published by five organizations, also reveals a chain of […]
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