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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Facts, figures, and case studies illustrate why paper packaging is not a sustainable alternative to plastic and why reducing our packaging footprint is essential to protect forests, people and the climate.
Date: April 2023
Topics: Climate, Deforestation, Human Cost, Packaging
This briefing from EPN, Fern, Zero Waste Europe and the Rethink Plastic Alliance critiques the rise of paper packaging as a substitute for single-use plastics, highlighting the environmental and social harms of increased paper use, and calls for stronger regulations to prioritize waste reduction and reusable systems.
Date: April 2023
Topics: EU, NGO, Packaging, Plastics, Waste Reduction
The briefing outlines allegations against Smurfit Kappa, a multinational paper and cardboard producer, for environmental and human rights violations in Colombia’s Cauca region. The 41 signatories call on Smurfit Kappa, the Colombian and Irish governments, and the European Union to take action.
Date: April 2023
Topics: Colombia, Human Rights, Shareholder, Smurfit Kappa
EPN, Quercus, Acréscimo, Iris, and Biofuelwatch expose the harmful impacts of burning forest biomass in Portugal’s pulp mills, and call for an end to subsidies that incentivize inefficiency, contribution to carbon emissions, and wildfire risks.
Date: March 2023
Topics: Biomass, Portugal, Pulp Mill, Subsidies, Wildfire
The Suzano ‘Cerrado Project’ in Ribas do Rio Pardo, Brazil, seeks $900 million in IFC funding but is criticized for environmental destruction, displacement of communities, and failing to deliver promised economic benefits.
Date: December 2022
Topics: Brazil, Community Displacement, Finance, IFC, Suzano
In the last two decades Brazil’s pulp and paper industry has tripled its pulp production capacity, from 6.7 to 21.5 million tons per year. This report examines the impacts of pulp and paper expansion in the Três Lagoas region, Brazil.
Date: December 2022
Topics: Brazil, Conflict Plantations, Deforestation, Pulp and Paper
Journalists and civil society groups have pointed out that Paper Excellence is a company controlled by the Sinar Mas Group, the parent conglomerate for pulp and paper producer Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). In Indonesia, APP and its wood suppliers have converted over 2 million hectares of tropical rainforests to establish pulpwood plantations.
Date: October 2022
Topics: Asia Pulp & Paper, Corporate Control, Indonesia, Paper Excellence, Sinar Mas
This report summarizes the environmental and social costs of the Paracel SA pulp mill project near Concepción, Paraguay, including threat of expansion of forest plantations and risks to the livelihoods of smallholder subsistence agriculture in the area.
Date: September 2022
Topics: Deforestation, Paraguay, Pulp Mill, Smallholder Farmers
Nine years after Asia Pulp and Paper’s highly publicized Forest Conservation Policy, monitoring by Indonesian and international NGOs documents ongoing failures. EPN-North America and partners contacted 27 major U.S. retailers selling Fiora, LoCor, or Livi branded products — manufactured by APP-affiliated Solaris — urging removal of these high-risk products until meaningful reforms are implemented.
Topics: Indonesia, Media Release, Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Social Responsibility, Transparency and Integrity
