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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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
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
Chile is home to the second largest coastal temperate rainforest on the planet: the Selva Valdiviana. In recent decades, these forests have been largely replaced by timber plantations grown to supply the paper industry. This report examines the expansion of Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (Arauco).
Date: May 2022
Topics: Arauco, Chile, Conflict Plantations, Indigenous Rights, Rainforest
This case study examines whether wood sourced from industrial timber plantations can be considered sustainable for biomass energy generation, using the Ngodwana project as a case study.
Date: March 2022
Topics: Biomass, South Africa, Sustainability, Timber Plantations
Until recently, the pristine forests in the remote province of Papua, Indonesia, remained relatively intact. Now, a wave of industrial plantations is carving up pockets of the region, clearing entire ecosystems as well as Indigenous Peoples’ lands to produce commodities for the global market.
Date: March 2022
Topics: Indigenous Rights, Indonesia, Papua, Plantations, Rainforest
Pulp and paper mills are increasingly installing over-sized, dedicated biomass boilers alongside more traditional cogeneration units to take advantage of strong support for producing electricity from burning wood. This report examines Arauco’s Valdivia biomass station.
Date: October 2021
Topics: Arauco, Biomass, Carbon Emissions, Chile, Indigenous Communities
