🇬🇧EN The promise of “green steel” has become an attractive narrative in global efforts to decarbonize heavy industry. However, “green steel” or “sustainable carbon” is not as green as they appear. [🇧🇷PT Abaixo!] (1/9) #AVB #Eucalyptus #Maranhão #Brazil #Brasil

🫨 The recent controversy surrounding the GHG Protocol has sparked concern across the climate community. Be part of the conversation and read the full story: environmentalpaper.org/2026/07/ghg-...

A brand new briefing by the Biomass Action Network (BAN) exposes the human cost of large-scale biomass energy. As the world looks for alternatives to fossil fuels, burning wood for power and heat has emerged as a popular solution.

Want to know more about this story? Read all about it in this great article by Fern's Martin Pigeon: environmentalpaper.org/2026/06/fibr... #FibreExcellence #Pulp #SaintGaudens #JacksonWijaya #MathieuPigasse

Fibre Excellence: bioenergy subsidies have pushed the largest French pulp company to bankruptcy - Environmental Paper Network

Cellulose factory in St Gaudens (France). © Jean Paul Alandry, Wikipedia Commons Licence.

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Pulp and paper giant APRIL faces renewed scrutiny over its bid to re-enter the Forest Stewardship Council. Environmental groups warn that APRIL’s decision to source wood from two suppliers linked to extensive recent deforestation in Indonesia risks undermining the FSC remedy process.

Pulp and paper giant APRIL’s supplier choices put FSC remedy process to the test

JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant APRIL’s recent decision to lower its deforestation commitments and source wood from two companies associated with extensive recent forest loss has created a new…

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Very interesting 🧵and report:

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🏭💸 The largest remaining pulp company in France, Fibre Excellence, has filed for bankruptcy and its fate will be known soon. Read all about it in this great article by Fern's Martin Pigeon: environmentalpaper.org/2026/06/fibr... #FibreExcellence #SaintGaudens

🏭💸 The largest remaining pulp company in France, Fibre Excellence, has filed for bankruptcy and its fate will be known soon. Read all about it in this great article by Fern's Martin Pigeon: environmentalpaper.org/2026/06/fibr... #FibreExcellence #SaintGaudens

Hundreds of millions of pages of unnecessary paper could be eliminated each year through one simple SEC reform. Elizabeth Underwood, Ph.D. explains how modernizing investor communications can benefit investors, companies, and the environment. environmentalpaper.org/2026/06/a-si...

The rise of forest bioenergy threatens UNFCCs new climate roadmap, putting forests and the climate at risk. Our global partner's @environmentalpaper.bsky.social Biomass Action Network is this week in Bonn to remind that bioenergy is not a climate solution. environmentalpaper.org/2026/06/bioe...

Bioenergy is a Roadmap to Forest Destruction - BAN advises UN in new briefing - Environmental Paper Network

As world leaders wrapped up COP30 in Belém last year, a new climate roadmap was unveiled: one to transition away from fossil fuels, and another to halt and

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A brand new briefing by the Biomass Action Network (BAN) exposes the human cost of large-scale biomass energy. As the world looks for alternatives to fossil fuels, burning wood for power and heat has emerged as a popular solution.

📝New briefing just dropped The Biomass Action Network has published a new briefing, warning the UN that reliance on bioenergy to meet Climate Targets will accelerate both forest destruction and climate change. Read more about the briefing in our blog post: environmentalpaper.org/2026/06/bioe...

Indonesian paper giant, APRIL, has said it will buy wood fibre from companies that cleared over 47,000 hectares of tropical forest since 2020.🪵 We've joined 22 other NGOs to condemn the decision, calling on them to uphold their sustainability commitments & reject suppliers linked to deforestation.

Indonesia’s second-biggest pulp and paper producer buying from country’s worst deforesters

APRIL will buy from timber companies which have together cleared more than 47,000 hectares of precious tropical forest since 2020

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Backers admit little knowledge about the industry and its history of pollution violations

Louisiana lawmakers approve incentives for controversial wood pellet industry • Louisiana Illuminator

It would ease regulations for pellet manufacturers while directing state support toward workforce development, financial incentives and infrastructure improvements designed to meet the industry’s need...

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🏭 🇳🇱 Will the Netherlands continue to subsidise deforestation under the label of 'sustainable energy'? Today, an emergency court case against RWE will be heard in The Hague over hundreds of millions of euros in subsidies for wood pellets imported from Malaysia 💸💸

‘The forest is crying out to us through fires, floods, and hurricanes. It’s a cry for help’: A conversation with forest ecologist Suzanne Simard By @joanbaxter.bsky.social

‘The forest is crying out to us through fires, floods, and hurricanes. It’s a cry for help': A conversation with forest ecologist Suzanne Simard - Halifax Examiner

"We have to use whatever tools we can to save these places that are the future for our kids. If we don't have these places, we don't have us. I mean, the world will carry on, but it might be without u...

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🌿 Argentina’s forests and communities are paying the hidden price of paper. Indigenous lands are being violated, water contaminated, and ecosystems destroyed for short-term profit. The Tribunal on the Rights of Nature has ruled against Argentina. Why?

What is worse than a pulp giant violating its own sustainability and anti-deforestation policy? Dropping the policy altogether. That is what pulp and paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (#APRIL) just did. 🚨 Alarm bells should be going off 👇

#Forests are not fuel. In this new @seattletimes.com opinion piece, Peter Riggs exposes the harm caused by the #WoodPellet industry & why burning forests is not a #climate solution. buff.ly/VscD34v

"The wood pellet industry can’t compete without extensive subsidies. Once widely available, these subsidies are now reduced or restricted in Europe or parts of Asia because of growing concerns over the industry’s climate impacts, community health harms and forest destruction."

Don't saddle Hoquiam with wood pellet plant | Op-Ed

Adverse economic headwinds should serve as a warning sign for Washington’s remaining proposed wood pellet plant in Hoquiam.

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Open letter by 78 environmental organisations sent to data centre companies, urging them not to partner with Drax, whose power station is the biggest CO2 emitter in the UK and burns more wood than any other plant in the world: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #biomass #AxeDrax

The Biomass Action Network of EPN has signed on to this letter: stay away from Drax and its biomass plant, the world’s largest wood-burning plant! Data centers should not fuel deforestation and intensive pulp plantations. #AxeDrax #CutCarbonNotForests

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Open letter by 78 environmental organisations sent to data centre companies, urging them not to partner with Drax, whose power station is the biggest CO2 emitter in the UK and burns more wood than any other plant in the world: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #biomass #AxeDrax

Last week, frontline communities came to the UK to urge Drax’s directors to stop the harm - something they shouldn’t have had to do. It’s past time the UK ended subsidies for Drax’s damage to communities and forests. Add your name: dogwoodalliance.org/actions/shut... #CutCarbonNotForests

Paper Calculator Power User Scriptation was featured in the Hollywood Reporter 🌎 The app allows digital revision of scripts & saved 48 million pages📄 last year = 🌳 5,700 trees 💧 5 million gallons of water 🏭 3 million pounds of CO2 emissions ~ Paper Calculator @scriptation.bsky.social @thr.com

How Scriptation Broke Hollywood’s Addiction to Paper

The app, which allows casts and crews to mark up and revise scripts digitally, has diverted more than 120 million sheets from production sets worldwide over the past three years.

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🇪🇪’Mets on pärandamiseks, mitte ärandamiseks!’ 👉 ‘The forest is meant to be preserved, not exploited!’ 🇬🇧 Last week, people took to the streets to protest Estonia’s incoming law that will further weaken the protection of forests in Estonia. #Estonia #ForestsMeanLife

Advocacy in action! Today, EPN’s Biomass Action Network is exposing the human rights impacts of large-scale biomass energy. ­ Read this thread or our full article here: environmentalpaper.org/2026/04/the-... © Trend Asia

📰 The latest report by Brazil’s Pastoral Land Commission comes with a bleak warning: land conflicts have become increasingly more violent to local, vulnerable communities.

Do you want to see a proper transition away from fossil fuels while safeguarding forests and ecosystems and respecting human rights? We If we are to adequately take action on climate change, we have to exclude false solutions from the transition. #CutCarbonNotForests

🌳 Happy Arbor Day! EPN members are working to protect forests and reduce pressures driving their loss. Our Paper Calculator™ makes impacts visible and supports better choices. Let’s protect what forests make possible. 🌲 Try it yourself: www.papercalculator.org

Ensuring “sustainable” supply chains are exempt from deforestation is more challenging than some would imagine. @thegeckoproject.org investigation provides evidence of how 'shadow integration' allows groups to claim their paper to be 100% free from deforestation, while reality shows differently.

Thank you SEC Chairman Paul Atkins for advancing default e-delivery for shareholder communications. This modernizes outdated rules, reduces waste, & saves resources and money. Potential savings of 800 million pages annually = 🌳 101K trees 🌍 75M lbs CO2 💧 89M gal water (EPN Paper Calculator™)