Ensure Transparency and Integrity
- Develop binding policies and targets and commit to a time-bound process for achieving them.
- Demonstrate and report on chains of custody for all paper and paper products and ensure all buyers have easy access to reliable information on fibre content, sustainability and production methods of individual paper and paper products.
- Eliminate greenwashing, or the practice of misleading consumers with false environmental claims.
- Ensure fair systems of economic rewards and liabilities that help reduce the impacts of pulp and paper production and use.
- Refuse investment and participation in business transactions (e.g., financing and trading) that are not fully consistent with this Vision.
- Commit to transparent, regular, publicly available and comprehensive reporting on progress.
Relevant Reports
News and Resources Related to Transparency & Integrity
Flushing the Climate 2023: A Follow Up Scorecard on Which U.S. Stores are Still Selling the World’s Most Destructive Toilet Paper
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Paper Excellence whistleblowers and investigative journalism project lead to calls for parliamentary hearings in Canada
In November 2021, the relatively small and privately owned company, Paper Excellence, acquired Domtar, a major, publicly-traded North American uncoated freesheet paper and packaging producer that today has 11 pulp and paper mills and 9 manufacturing and converting...
Flushing the Climate: Which U.S. Stores are Still Selling the World’s Most Destructive Toilet Paper?
9 years after their highly publicized Forest Conservation Policy was announced, monitoring by Indonesian and international NGOs finds Asia Pulp and Paper is failing to keep its promises, damaging the climate and harming local communities in Indonesia. EPN-North...
Indigenous Rights, Paper Giants and Armed Squads. Scenes from Land Conflicts in Brazil
Several Indigenous communities, who had reclaimed their ancestral lands taken away by companies, have recently been targeted by armed fazendeiros (agrarian latifundists) mobs in different regions of Brazil. The official recognition of these areas as Indigenous land...
First test of ‘net zero’ bank commitments as pulp & paper giants seek finance for expansion that could torpedo Indonesia’s climate goals
Civil society groups warn that material risks to financial institutions haven’t been disclosed New analyses released today by a coalition of civil society organizations reveal significant material risk to banks and investors exposed to two of the world’s largest pulp...
Indonesian paper giant APP takes over North American Domtar, putting the company’s credibility at risk
For the pulp and paper industry, it is the take-over of the decade. Domtar shareholders decided today to sell their shares to Paper Excellence and delivered the major North American uncoated freesheet paper producer (with 21 manufacturing facilities around the world,...
Navigating Environmental Paper Claims
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product. Unfortunately, there can be confusion around LCAs for wood products due to inconsistencies regarding what the commissioning organization might include or omit from their...
Got Accountability? The USDA’s Paper and Packaging Commodity Checkoff Program Continues to Operate in Secrecy
The need to ensure transparency and oversight for government sponsored commodity marketing programs: The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act is a start. By Environmental Paper Network - North America (EPN-NA) Cue the snappy catch phrases and animated characters...
Social and environmental organizations worldwide urge Domtar stakeholders to reject US$2.8 billion Paper Excellence Deal, stressing social and environmental concerns
June 24, 2021 - More than 65 organizations from North America, Indonesia and all over the world joined together today in an open letter urging Domtar shareholders, financiers, and customers to oppose the proposed acquisition of the company by rival Paper Excellence....
New evidence of profit shifting in Indonesia’s pulp sector
Jakarta, Indonesia, 3 November 2020 – A coalition of 25 civil society groups published evidence (1) of pulp industry’s practices of profit shifting in order to reduce corporate tax bills (2). The organisations called on the Government of Indonesia to crack down on...
APRIL’s Links with Supplier in Borneo Undercut “No Deforestation” Pledge
Today a coalition of civil society organisations published a report about deforestation and peatlands degradation on the rainforest-rich island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Based on analysis using satellite imagery, the report documents significant deforestation,...
APRIL Group Keeps Destroying Peatlands and Natural Rainforests Amid Covid-19
Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL) is Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper producer, and one of the world’s largest producers of rayon, a textile widely used by the fashion industry. After a decade of business expansion at the cost of...