On 22 September 2025, security forces from PT Toba Pulp Lestari Tbk (TPL), a sister company of APRIL, assaulted an indigenous village in North Sumatra, Indonesia, amid an ongoing land conflict over customary territories.| Environmental Paper Network
EPN’s Biomass Action Network has sent a letter to the UN outlining the negative impacts of large-scale “modern” biomass energy on people around the world. The submission was made in response to a call by the Special Rapporteur on Climate Change for input on the Human Rights impacts of renewable energy and critical minerals. This was a unique opportunity to draw attention to the detrimental effects that are being felt at every stage of the biomass supply chain and 84 non-government organ...| Environmental Paper Network
September 10, 2025 – Environmental Paper Network (EPN) International and Jikalahari, an Indonesian network of NGOs, released a paper highlighting the failure of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) to implement their green policies. The paper is being released as APP, one of the world’s largest companies, unveils a new sustainability policy in Jakarta — essentially […]| Environmental Paper Network
Biomass Action Network Co-Coordinator (Policy and Campaigns) Call for job applications Environmental Paper Network International is hiring a Co-Coordinator to help manage our Biomass Action Network (BAN), with a focus on Policy and Campaigns. If you are interested in applying, please read the job description and submit your application (CV and cover letter) by 23.00 […]| Environmental Paper Network
Written by Janaina Uemura, coordinator of BAN’s Latin America working group and Davi Martins, BAN’s International Advocacy Campaigner. At the end of August 2025, the vibrant port city of Valparaíso, Chile, became a convergence point for climate justice movements and NGOs at the 4th Climate Justice Latam and the Caribbean Meeting (Cuarto Encuentro Latinoamericano y […]| Environmental Paper Network
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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
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 expanding large-scale forest bioenergy, according to the Biomass Action Network (BAN).| 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:| 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
