July 24, 2025
The Environmental Paper Network, along with a coalition of civil society organizations from Indonesia, the U.S., and Canada, is condemning the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) decision to lift its suspension of Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) Remedy Process. This premature move undermines the FSC’s own commitments to transparency and accountability and risks enabling greenwash for […]
Read MoreJuly 21, 2025
Reflecting on his time at the recent Climate Negotiations, Davi Martins (BAN’s Biomass Advocacy Campaigner) warns that real solutions like forest protection, genuine renewable energy, and community-led justice cannot wait. The countdown to Belém has begun, and with it, the final test of global climate solidarity. The Biomass Action Network demands that COP30 must deliver […]
Read MoreJuly 17, 2025
Environmental Paper Network (EPN), Fern, BankTrack and the Estonian Council of Environmental NGOs (EKO) are jointly calling on European and international banks and investors not to finance Viru Keemia Grupp/VKG’s planned pulp mill in northeastern Estonia’s Ida-Viru County. A new report published today outlines the devastating effects this pulp mill could have on Estonian nature. […]
Read MoreJuly 7, 2025
Seattle, WA: In a new report, the Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE) estimates that clearcutting over 32,000 acres of boreal forests in Ontario to produce pulp for toilet paper made in the US generates over 3.8 million tons of carbon pollution each year. This is equivalent to what is emitted by over 824,000 gas-powered passenger […]
Read MoreJuly 1, 2025
Suzano, the world’s largest producer of eucalyptus pulp, has requested the eviction of 600 families in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The eviction, previously blocked by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court, has now been authorized and is scheduled for June 30. Suzano is a major landholder, controlling 2.7 million hectares across seven Brazilian states and […]
Read MoreJune 20, 2025
Achieving mitigation of climate change, a just energy transition, and synergies between actions to safeguard the Earth’s climate and biodiversity are under consideration at Climate Convention meetings in Bonn that will set up for COP 30 in Brazil in November, but a seemingly innocuous push for a bioeconomy contains threats to these important agendas via […]
Read MoreJune 19, 2025
Davi Martins, The Biomass Action Network’s International Advocacy Campaigner, is on the ground in Bonn. Here is his take on events so far: Two days. That’s what it took for delegates to agree upon the negotiation agenda for the Climate Talks in Bonn. This delay was mainly due to the inclusion of finance for climate […]
Read MoreJune 13, 2025
Jakarta, Indonesia – 13th June, 2025 – RE100, a global initiative of corporations committed to 100% renewable electricity, has announced a significant update to its technical criteria. Earlier this year, RE100 moved to explicitly dismiss co-firing with coal as a form of renewable energy. With members like Google, Apple, Danone, Meta, and many more, this decision […]
Read MoreJune 12, 2025
The financial sector has an unparalleled opportunity to shape a green future of the pulp and paper industry. These choices will not only influence the industry’s practices but also contribute to the broader global effort to protect our planet and its resources for generations to come. As we are currently closing in on the first […]
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