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.
Relevant Reports
News and Resources Related to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Too Much Hot Air – Paper’s Climate Change Impacts in Indonesia
A new report ‘Too Much Hot Air‘, details the shocking climate change impacts of the Indonesian pulp and paper industry through damage to peatlands, and highlights solutions in the form of ‘paludiculture’, with examples of good practice from local communities. The...
EPN Webinar on Green Paper, Red Lines
'Green Paper, Red Lines' is a set of requirements for financiers to avoid financing pulp and paper companies that are unsustainable or unethical. This webinar explains them, gives an example of the situation they are intended to avoid, and describes our process for...
EPN Webinar on Peatlands and the Pulp and Paper Industry in Indonesia
This EPN webniar explains that peatlands (~organic soils) worldwide store twice as much carbon as all forest biomass, although they cover only a tenth of the land. 15% of this land has been degraded, causing huge GHG emissions, peatland fires (in Russia and Indonesia)...
Paludiculture Workshop: Local community solutions to sustaining peatlands in Indonesia
The Environmental Paper Network is helping to host a workshop in Indonesia to share knowledge about paludiculture, sustainable management of peat soils and solutions to the peatland degradation caused by the paper industry. Sergio Baffoni gives a flavour of the...
NGO Letter: Peatland management of APRIL is not sustainable
A group of NGO sent a letter to the Indonesian paper giant Asia Pacific Resources Limited (APRIL) on peat management in the Kampar Peninsula. APRIL recently announced a peatland restoration project. However, at the same time, the cmpany is continuing to drain...
Is Asia Pulp & Paper a responsible company?
We are often asked whether it is OK to buy paper from Indonesia, now that the biggest Indonesian pulp and papers have committed to a moratorium on rainforest logging. Here, Sergio Baffoni explains why it is still too early. On February 5, 2013, after decades of...
A hope for peatland protection, no more business as usual on peat
EoF News (PEKANBARU)—Today, Eyes on the Forest commended the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for issuing a letter (S.494/MENLHK-PHPL/2015) and instructions (S.661/Menlhk-Sekjen/Rokum/2015) regarding peat management for the prevention and control of fire. This is...
Indonesian Forest Fire Crisis Continues as Jokowi Visits Obama
Press Release - For Immediate Release As Indonesian Forest Fires Bellow Smoke, U.S. Visit by Indonesian President Joko Widodo Presents a Crucial Leadership Opportunity on Climate Change, Deforestation and Investment Indonesia’s Fire Outbreaks Producing More Daily...
Open Letter From Indonesian NGOs to the Government of The Republic of Indonesia, Buyers, Customers, and Banks of Companies Related to Forest Fires in Indonesia
Forest fires Indonesia continue to burn on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, and are on track to release more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire US economy this year. Today, a coalition of Indonesian NGOs today sent an open letter to the government and to...
Press-release: Wetlands International calls for National Peatland Strategy in Indonesia to curb haze disaster
Indonesia can only curb the annual fires and haze disasters if it develops a National Peatland Conservation and Restoration Strategy, according to Wetlands International, which presented its recommendations to press today. In its position statement, Wetlands...
These maps, tables show you why Sinar Mas/APP companies linked to forest fires, haze
Originally published on the Eyes on the Forest website (PEKANBARU) — Eyes on the Forest published NASA’s FIRMS MODIS fire hotspots data and satellite images on its interactive map to allow easy monitoring of current and past fires in Sumatran concessions of the Sinar...
European EPN publishes a threat atlas for new pulp mill expansion
The European Environmental Paper Network has published a new report, Mapping Pulp Mill Expansion: Risks and Recommendations. The report offers a resource for investors and large volume paper buyers concerned about climate and deforestation risk and reflects a rising...
