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 report is part of a series on Green Bonds in the pulp and paper industry. It provides a case study on the UPM green bonds and their expected lack of added value in protecting the global climate and the environment.
Date: June 2021
Topics: Finance, Green Bonds, Plantations, UPM
Several ‘Food Estate Programs’ announced by the Indonesian government could cover about 770,000 ha in Central Kalimantan, 2 million hectares in Papua, and 32,000 in North Sumatra, changing land use from ‘permanent forest’ to other uses.
Date: March 2021
Topics: Deforestation, Food Estates, Indonesia, Land Use
SolvingPackaging provides case studies, guidance, and other resources to adopt and scale sustainable packaging solutions and pursue innovations for the future, connecting companies, lawmakers, advocates, and individuals with organizations empowering change.
Date: February 2021
Topics: Innovation, Packaging, Sustainable Solutions
Seven years into APP’s 2013 commitment to responsible environmental and social standards, APP appears to have moved away from wholesale destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests within its own concession areas but is refusing to recognise customary rights of communities and failing to implement effective grievance mechanisms.
Date: November 2020
Topics: Asia Pulp & Paper, Communities, Finance, Forest Conservation, Indonesia
This report provides the Government of Indonesia and other stakeholders with a detailed analysis of profit shifting practices in the nation’s pulp industry, which appear to have resulted in the movement of substantial taxable profits to at least one offshore tax haven.
Date: November 2020
Topics: Finance, Indonesia, Profit Shifting, Pulp Industry, Tax
This report documents extensive deforestation, including clearance of forests on peatlands, in the concession area of PT Adindo Hutani Lestari (Adindo), one of APRIL’s top five wood suppliers. These findings represent significant violations of both APRIL’s and RGE Group’s commitments.
Date: October 2020
Topics: APRIL, Deforestation, Indonesia, Peatlands, Royal Golden Eagle
Pulp & paper is a large contributor to agrarian conflicts in Indonesia, with around 350,000 hectares affected, or around 10 percent of the total pulpwood plantation area. Impacts on communities include loss of land, loss of livelihoods, criminalisation and violence.
Date: May 2020
Topics: Agrarian Rights, Finance Risk, Indonesia, Pulp and Paper, Social Conflict
EPN evaluated the policies of 68 major financiers of the pulp and paper industry against 14 absolute minimum criteria — the “Red Lines” — that all financial institutions should require of their clients to reduce social and environmental risk. The assessment finds that most Red Lines remain very poorly protected, with only 6% of banks scoring “well protected” on average, though some improvements were recorded since the first assessment in 2017.
Topics: Deforestation, Finance, Human Rights, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Transparency and Integrity
This briefing discusses the social and environmental risks associated with UPM Kymmene Oyj and its operations in Uruguay, highlighting the importance of strong social and environmental risk management policies and close scrutiny of individual investments.
Date: March 2020
Topics: Environmental Risk, Finance, Social Risk, UPM, Uruguay
