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EPN Reports & Publications

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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Solving Packaging

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

Sustainability Default: Buyers and banks’ ineffective control policies allow paper giant APP to neglect forest conservation commitments

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

The Macao Money Machine: Profit Shifting and Tax Leakage in Indonesia’s Pulp Exports

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

Sustaining Deforestation: APRIL’s Links with PT Adindo Hutani Lestari Undercut ‘No Deforestation’ Pledge

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

Defaulting on Social Conflict Resolution: Indonesian Pulp & Paper Industry May Be Exposed to USD 1-10 Billion In Social Compensation Risk

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

Papering Over Reality and Risk in Uruguay: UPM-Kymmene Oyj and its claims of social and environmental leadership

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

Conflict Plantations Chapter 2: Revealing Asia Pacific Resources International Limited’s Trail of Disputes Across Indonesia

This report maps the social conflicts associated with Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) across Indonesia.

Date: November 2019

Topics: APRIL, Conflict Plantations, Indonesia, Social Conflict

Conflict Plantations Chapter 1: Revealing Asia Pulp and Paper’s Trail of Disputes Across Indonesia

This report maps the social conflicts associated with Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) across Indonesia.

Date: October 2019

Topics: Asia Pulp & Paper, Conflict Plantations, Indonesia, Social Conflict

Borneo Deforestation Update

Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL Groups continued in 2018 to source wood from a controversial supplier owned by Djarum Group, following up on a joint NGO report published in August 2018 about deforestation in East Kalimantan.

Date: October 2019

Topics: APRIL, Asia Pulp & Paper, Borneo, Deforestation, Djarum Group