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APP Sinarmas breaches its Forest Conservation Policy – a report by Greenpeace on 10th anniversary of APP’s commitment.

October 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 […]

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International Day of Action on Big Biomass 2023

October 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 […]

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Webinar on the Pulp and Paper industry and its #BigBadBiomass investments in Europe

October 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 […]

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New database names companies blacklisted by global investors and banks

October 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 […]

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Ending 90 Billion Sheets: The Environmental Impact of Pharmaceutical Paper Waste

September 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 Despite the existence of digital alternatives, outdated U.S. regulations still require drug manufacturers to transmit prescribing information on a paper label.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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International Day of Action on Packaging #MakeThrowAwayGoAway

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 […]

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Another disappointing victory for the single-use packaging lobby

July 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 […]

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Borneo communities want their land back!

July 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 […]

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