Welcome to the Environmental Paper Network’s Reports & Publications page.
Find all reports, briefings, factsheets, and other publications authored, or co-authored, by the Environmental Paper Network or the Biomass Action Network. For additional resources on biomass, including from partner organisations, please see our Biomass Info Library.
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This guide helps financial institutions support responsible investment in the pulp and paper industry by providing clear social and environmental ‘do-no-harm’ criteria for a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient future.
Date: June 2025
Topics: Finance, Pulp and Paper, Responsible Investment
This report examines how the EU’s pulp and paper industry is driving forest biomass burning for energy across Europe.
Date: March 2025
Topics: Biomass, EU, Forest Energy, Pulp and Paper
This brief from EPN, Bank Information Center, AXIAL Naturaleza y Cultura, Instituto Maira, and Heñoi critically examines the World Bank’s proposed $100 million loan for industrial tree plantations in Paraguay, detailing concerns about deforestation, indigenous rights, and the lack of real economic benefits for local communities.
Date: February 2025
Topics: Deforestation, Finance, Indigenous Rights, Paraguay, World Bank
A new report from EPN’s Biomass Action Network warns that plans to triple woody biomass energy by 2030 will drive deforestation, biodiversity loss, and land grabs while worsening climate change. The report calls for ending subsidies and policy support for large-scale biomass, exposing its flawed carbon accounting and devastating environmental impact.
Date: November 2024
Topics: Biodiversity, Biomass, Climate, Deforestation, Global Threat
Suzano, the world’s largest eucalyptus pulp producer, markets itself as a responsible company. This report examines the gap between Suzano’s sustainability claims and the real impacts on communities, forests, and the planet.
Date: July 2024
Topics: Brazil, Communities, Greenwashing, Suzano
This briefing draws attention to the unacceptable acceleration of burning wood together with coal as a so-called form of abatement of fossil fuel emissions, and how Parties at the UNFCCC Conferences should not include this interpretation of ‘abatement’ in their plans.
Date: June 2024
Topics: Biomass, Carbon Accounting, Co-firing, UNFCCC
In this report, Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC) and the EPN Biomass Action Network (BAN) expose how biomass energy subsidies and carbon accounting loopholes undermine global climate and biodiversity targets.
Date: May 2024
Topics: Biodiversity, Biomass, Carbon Accounting, South Korea
Deforestation in Indonesia is resurging, led by PT Mayawana Persada, which has cleared over 33,000 hectares since 2021, causing social conflicts and threatening wildlife. Investigations link Mayawana to the Royal Golden Eagle Group through opaque ownership structures, highlighting a broader trend of ‘shadow companies’ enabling deforestation while avoiding accountability.
Date: March 2024
Topics: Borneo, Deforestation, Indonesia, Royal Golden Eagle, Social Conflict
This briefing exposes how UNFCCC carbon accounting rules create a false perception of biomass energy as carbon neutral — fueling deforestation, climate harm, and global inequity while diverting resources from real renewable energy solutions. Unlike fossil fuels, biomass combustion emissions are not recorded in the energy sector of the country that burns them, externalizing responsibility onto the nations that supply the wood.
Topics: Biomass Energy, Carbon Accounting, Climate Colonialism, Deforestation, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, UNFCCC
