Joint letter of EPN with EarthSight, Forest Watch Indonesia, Greenpeace Indonesia, Save Our Borneo, and 18 other civil society organisations for APRIL Group on their suspension of their own Sustainable Forest Management Policy 2.0 (SFMP 2.0).
Date: June 2026
Topics: APRIL, Communities, Conflict Plantations, Deforestation, Forests, Indonesia, Pulp and Paper, Pulp Industry, Royal Golden Eagle
A new brief from BAN exposes the flaws in the tempting narrative that simple ‘drop-in’ e-fuel solutions can quickly replace oil-based transport fuels for shipping, aviation, and road transport. Far from always representing a clean, responsible alternative, some e-fuel solutions risk becoming a major new driver of forest destruction and carbon emissions, wreaking havoc during their production and/or combustion.
Date: March 2026
Topics: Biomass, Biomass Energy, Carbon Accounting, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Equity
This briefing documents the subsidies flowing to the pulp and paper sector, their social and ecological impacts in Finland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, and offers a credible alternative vision for where that funding should go.
Date: April 2026
Topics: Biomass, Consumption, EU, Finance, Pulp and Paper
This briefing by the Biomass Action Network’s Latin America Working Group and the Global Forest Coalition exposes the impacts of industrial-scale biomass energy in Latin America. Released during the Brazil COP, this briefing explains how it is driving deforestation, water scarcity, social conflict, and land dispossession, threatening both communities and the climate throughout the region.
Date: November 2025
Topics: Biomass, Climate, Deforestation, Latin America
This article, from Global Forest Coalition’s Forest Cover magazine, traces EPN’s long-running women’s leadership exchange between China and Indonesia, where grassroots leaders have built solidarity, shared strategies, and strengthened joint action to defend forests and communities.
Date: November 2025
Topics: China, Forest Justice, Indonesia, Women's Leadership
This report from the EPN’s Biomass Action Network exposes almost $250 billion in subsidies by major economies on burning trees for energy, fueling deforestation and delaying real climate solutions.
Date: October 2025
Topics: Biomass, Climate, Deforestation, Subsidies
This EPN International and Jikalahari report exposes Asia Pulp and Paper’s failure to deliver on its decade-old Forest Conservation Policy, highlighting ongoing deforestation, human rights abuses, and major climate impacts.
Date: September 2025
Topics: Asia Pulp & Paper, Deforestation, Human Rights, Indonesia
This report reviews the policies of the Sustainable Biomass Program and finds its claims of biomass as climate-friendly are misleading. Published by SFOC, Biofuelwatch, EPN, and partners, it exposes how SBP certifies destructive forest biomass and enables continued subsidies.
Date: July 2025
Topics: Biomass, Certification, Deforestation, Greenwashing
EPN, Fern, BankTrack, and EKO call on banks to stop financing Viru Keemia Grupp’s pulp mill, which threatens Estonia’s forests and climate. The report reveals its harmful environmental impact.
Date: July 2025
Topics: Biodiversity, Estonia, Finance, Pulp Mill
