Looking Back and Looking Forward
A Hike Through the Mountains| Environmental Paper Network
Looking Back and Looking Forward| environmentalpaper.org
World’s largest biomass certifier allows forest destruction and rising emissions under the guise of clean energy A new international report released today warns that forests worldwide are being cut down and burned for energy, and falsely labeled as “sustainable.” The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP), the world’s most prominent certifier of biomass, is approving wood linked […]| Environmental Paper Network
Behind Brazil’s global image as a land of natural abundance—and the host of this year’s international climate summit—lies a stark reality: centuries of violence, dispossession, and resistance in the countryside.| Environmental Paper Network
The Environmental Paper Network, along with a coalition of civil society organizations from Indonesia, the U.S., and Canada, is condemning the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) decision to lift its suspension of Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) Remedy Process. This premature move undermines the FSC’s own commitments to transparency and accountability and risks enabling greenwash for […]| Environmental Paper Network
Reflecting on his time at the recent Climate Negotiations, Davi Martins (BAN’s Biomass Advocacy Campaigner) warns that real solutions like forest protection, genuine renewable energy, and community-led justice cannot wait. The countdown to Belém has begun, and with it, the final test of global climate solidarity. The Biomass Action Network demands that COP30 must deliver […]| Environmental Paper Network
Environmental Paper Network (EPN), Fern, BankTrack and the Estonian Council of Environmental NGOs (EKO) are jointly calling on European and international banks and investors not to finance Viru Keemia Grupp/VKG’s planned pulp mill in northeastern Estonia’s Ida-Viru County. A new report published today outlines the devastating effects this pulp mill could have on Estonian nature. […]| Environmental Paper Network
Seattle, WA: In a new report, the Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE) estimates that clearcutting over 32,000 acres of boreal forests in Ontario to produce pulp for toilet paper made in the US generates over 3.8 million tons of carbon pollution each year. This is equivalent to what is emitted by over 824,000 gas-powered passenger […]| Environmental Paper Network
Pulp profits, broken lives: Suzano’s war on Brazilian families| environmentalpaper.org
Suzano, the world’s largest producer of eucalyptus pulp, has requested the eviction of 600 families in the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The eviction, previously blocked by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court, has now been authorized and is scheduled for June 30.| Environmental Paper Network
Achieving mitigation of climate change, a just energy transition, and synergies between actions to safeguard the Earth’s climate and biodiversity are under consideration at Climate Convention meetings in Bonn that will set up for COP 30 in Brazil in November, but a seemingly innocuous push for a bioeconomy contains threats to these important agendas via […]| Environmental Paper Network
Davi Martins, The Biomass Action Network’s International Advocacy Campaigner, is on the ground in Bonn. Here is his take on events so far: Two days. That’s what it took for delegates to agree upon the negotiation agenda for the Climate Talks in Bonn. This delay was mainly due to the inclusion of finance for climate […]| Environmental Paper Network
The common misconception that burning woody biomass is sustainable, is caused by the way emissions are calculated and the carbon accounts are presented. The emissions caused by burning wood for energy do not appear in national carbon accounting for energy, unlike emissions from oil, coal and other fossil fuels. But that doesn’t mean the emissions aren’t real: CO2 emitted from burning wood heats the atmosphere in exactly the same way as CO2 from burning coal. Additionally, as more forest...| Environmental Paper Network
