Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Reduce total energy consumption and high emission energy sources.
- Change from fossil fuels and other high emission energy sources, including from unsustainable biomass, to only responsibly-produced low-emission biomass and other renewable energy sources.
- Reduce soil emissions, particularly from peatlands and other high carbon stock soils.
- Maintain and enhance carbon storage in managed forests and other ecosystems.
- Promote technological innovations and design production systems that increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Apply greenhouse gas reduction goals and regular reporting which accurately accounts for the landscape and biogenic greenhouse gas emissions of paper production, including carbon debt.
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News and Resources Related to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Logging Loophole at the Heart of Glasgow Declaration
In a rare feel good moment in Glasgow, world leaders stepped into the spotlight at the climate negotiations to sign their declaration on ending deforestation and land degradation. Here at least, against the background of a Climate Code Red and disappointment that even...
Activists protest first eucalyptus shipment from Mozambique to Portugal and ask World Bank to stop funding ‘afforestation’/operating company
Conversion of forests and land to plantations doesn’t solve climate change The first delivery of eucalyptus trees to Aveiro in Portugal from the port of Beira in Mozambique has been received with strong criticism by Mozambican and Portuguese groups and two...
The capture of policy-making by the pulp and paper industry is driving mega-fires in Portugal and land grabbing in Mozambique
This article is a guest post by Oliver Munnion, Global Forest Coalition, Portugal. It was originally published in Forest Cover 63, December 2020. Global Forest Coalition will host a webinar on Thursday 21st January at 3pm Amsterdam time (CET) to explore their new...
Climate Case Study: How stopping a pulp mill led to below net zero emissions in Tasmania
The community victory in 2011 which halted Gunns Ltd’s devastating pulp mill from being built in the state of Tasmania, Australia has some years later produced a stunning climate result, which was revealed in the recently released Greenhouse Gas Inventories of...
Testimonies of impacts from biomass energy, at the People’s Summit in Santiago de Chile
The biomass industry, fueled by public subsidies, is a growing threat to forests and to effectively addressing the climate crisis. During a workshop organized by EPN and the Global Forest Coalition at the People’s Summit, in Santiago de Chile, testimonies were shared...
Two ways to get companies to waste less paper over the holidays
Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash Heading into the year-end holidays our list of to-do’s may include some gift-giving, some special cooking, and a lot of trying to save the world with our individual choices to cut consumption and avoid throwaway products and packaging....
Massive forest fires and haze in Indonesia create public health and climate crisis
The world's tropical rainforests and the people who live in them are suffering continued tragedy from forest fires that are driven by the demand for agricultural commodities, including timber for pulp to make viscose, paper and packaging. In Indonesia, massive forest...
New maps launched to track the expansion of the biomass industry
The Environmental Paper Network's Working Group on Forests, Climate and Biomass has today launched new tools to track and monitor the expanding biomass energy and pellet industries. The two maps published make publicly available for the first time an extensive global...
Tree plantation wildfires in Spain are a warning sign
Temperatures have peaked at record highs in many parts of Europe this week, and the consequences are being felt severely in Europe’s forests. As highlighted in a discussion document published by the EPN earlier this year, there is an increasingly clear link between...
Warning issued to investors: Forest biomass is risky business
Briefing by environmental groups highlights serious financial, legal and reputational risks 02 May 2019 – The Environmental Paper Network, Global Forest Coalition and Biofuelwatch have today issued a Briefing to investors that highlights the serious reputational,...
120 groups decry Biomass Delusion as a losing proposition for forests, climate and communities
“We, the undersigned organisations believe that we must move beyond burning forest biomass to effectively address climate change. We call on governments, financiers, companies and civil society to avoid expansion of the forest biomass based energy industry and move...
Over 120 groups from around the world declare large scale forest biomass energy a dangerous ‘delusion’
Organisations from over 30 countries release statement calling for an end to monetary and policy support for biomass (24 October 2018) - A loud chorus of civil society organisations representing hundreds of thousands of people around the world has come together to...