Environmental Paper Network
@environmentalpaper.bsky.social
EPN brings together hundreds of NGOs from around the world dedicated to transforming the forest, pulp and paper, and biomass industries for a more sustainable future.
www.environmentalpaper.org
www.environmentalpaper.org
Pinned
EPN is now on Bluesky! 🌍✨ Join us for the latest news, research, and actions about transforming the forest, pulp, paper, and biomass industries for a more sustainable future. Follow along and be part of the movement to protect forests, climate, and communities! 🌿💚
Biomass Action Network Fears compromise at #COP30 and demands that the Transition away from Fossil Fuels must be to Clean Energy Sources which Keep Forests Standing. Read our press release here: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom... @stand.earth @cop30brazil.bsky.social #UNFCCC
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Biomass Action Network Fears compromise at #COP30 and demands that the Transition away from Fossil Fuels must be to Clean Energy Sources which Keep Forests Standing. Read our press release here: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom... @stand.earth @cop30brazil.bsky.social #UNFCCC
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Old growth in BC is being turned into wood pellets for power plants in Japan & the UK.
Despite promises, Premier David Eby is enabling this destruction.
Call on David Eby & Ravi Parmar to stop subsidizing Drax and protect old growth.
Take action: bit.ly/takeactionforbiomass
Despite promises, Premier David Eby is enabling this destruction.
Call on David Eby & Ravi Parmar to stop subsidizing Drax and protect old growth.
Take action: bit.ly/takeactionforbiomass
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Old growth in BC is being turned into wood pellets for power plants in Japan & the UK.
Despite promises, Premier David Eby is enabling this destruction.
Call on David Eby & Ravi Parmar to stop subsidizing Drax and protect old growth.
Take action: bit.ly/takeactionforbiomass
Despite promises, Premier David Eby is enabling this destruction.
Call on David Eby & Ravi Parmar to stop subsidizing Drax and protect old growth.
Take action: bit.ly/takeactionforbiomass
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
New short report by @gfc-forest.bsky.social and @environmentalpaper.bsky.social exposes the impacts of large-scale #biomass energy, mostly for use in industry, on communities and ecosystems: globalforestcoalition.org/decarbonisat...
Decarbonisation or Dispossession? Industrial-Scale Biomass in Latin America and Its Impacts - Global Forest Coalition
As COP30 convenes in Brazil, governments and corporations are spotlighting biomass as a key part of the “green transition,” promoting it under national decarbonisation and bioeconomy agendas. The Bele...
globalforestcoalition.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
New short report by @gfc-forest.bsky.social and @environmentalpaper.bsky.social exposes the impacts of large-scale #biomass energy, mostly for use in industry, on communities and ecosystems: globalforestcoalition.org/decarbonisat...
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
📄 830 million pages mailed yearly
🌳 101,000+ trees
🚗 Nearly 7,000 cars' worth of emissions
🗞️A bipartisan bill could change that. EPN’s Paper Calculator helped quantify the savings. 🌲✍️
Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/06/mode...
🌳 101,000+ trees
🚗 Nearly 7,000 cars' worth of emissions
🗞️A bipartisan bill could change that. EPN’s Paper Calculator helped quantify the savings. 🌲✍️
Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/06/mode...
June 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
📄 830 million pages mailed yearly
🌳 101,000+ trees
🚗 Nearly 7,000 cars' worth of emissions
🗞️A bipartisan bill could change that. EPN’s Paper Calculator helped quantify the savings. 🌲✍️
Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/06/mode...
🌳 101,000+ trees
🚗 Nearly 7,000 cars' worth of emissions
🗞️A bipartisan bill could change that. EPN’s Paper Calculator helped quantify the savings. 🌲✍️
Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/06/mode...
EPN's Biomass Action Network has released a new briefing at COP30 "Decarbonisation or dispossession? The extent of industrial scale biomass energy in Latin America and its impacts on the region"🔗 environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/deca... #bioeconomy #COP30 #LatinAmerica #biomass #bigbadbiomass
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
EPN's Biomass Action Network has released a new briefing at COP30 "Decarbonisation or dispossession? The extent of industrial scale biomass energy in Latin America and its impacts on the region"🔗 environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/deca... #bioeconomy #COP30 #LatinAmerica #biomass #bigbadbiomass
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Investigation by @stand.earth confirms Drax is still turning ancient trees from oldgrowth forests in BC into wood pellets to burn itself and to sell to others.Yet last week, the govt. signed a new subsidy contract with Drax for 2027-31. #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Investigation by @stand.earth confirms Drax is still turning ancient trees from oldgrowth forests in BC into wood pellets to burn itself and to sell to others.Yet last week, the govt. signed a new subsidy contract with Drax for 2027-31. #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Biomass Action Network Sounds Alarm on Bioeconomy False Solutions in Belem 4X Pledge at Leaders Summit Ahead of COP30, Issues Open Letter to Parties
👉 Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom...
👉 Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom...
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Biomass Action Network Sounds Alarm on Bioeconomy False Solutions in Belem 4X Pledge at Leaders Summit Ahead of COP30, Issues Open Letter to Parties
👉 Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom...
👉 Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom...
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
NEW REPORT!
Today the Forests & Finance Coalition launched the 2025 Banking on Biodiversity Collapse report.
The report finds that after a decade of broken paper promises, financial institutions are actually doubling down on credit and investment to tropical forests risk commodity companies.
Today the Forests & Finance Coalition launched the 2025 Banking on Biodiversity Collapse report.
The report finds that after a decade of broken paper promises, financial institutions are actually doubling down on credit and investment to tropical forests risk commodity companies.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
NEW REPORT!
Today the Forests & Finance Coalition launched the 2025 Banking on Biodiversity Collapse report.
The report finds that after a decade of broken paper promises, financial institutions are actually doubling down on credit and investment to tropical forests risk commodity companies.
Today the Forests & Finance Coalition launched the 2025 Banking on Biodiversity Collapse report.
The report finds that after a decade of broken paper promises, financial institutions are actually doubling down on credit and investment to tropical forests risk commodity companies.
Thanks to Southwings (@southwings.bsky.social), EPN, Etsuko Kinefuchi (UNCG), and Dr. Treva Gear (@dogwoodalliance.org) saw Georgia's largest wood pellet plants from above. On the ground, we heard from residents about the health impacts they’re experiencing. Communities are speaking out.
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Thanks to Southwings (@southwings.bsky.social), EPN, Etsuko Kinefuchi (UNCG), and Dr. Treva Gear (@dogwoodalliance.org) saw Georgia's largest wood pellet plants from above. On the ground, we heard from residents about the health impacts they’re experiencing. Communities are speaking out.
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
A new short documentary by @rachelcarsondc.bsky.social reveals the environmental and community health impacts of industrial wood pellet production done by companies like Drax and Enviva. Watch Now.
Wood Pellet Wasteland: Inside the Fight to Stop Big Biomass
This short documentary reveals the environmental and human health impacts of industrial wood pellet production. The film centers around Drax and Enviva, two industrial biomass energy companies, that…
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A new short documentary by @rachelcarsondc.bsky.social reveals the environmental and community health impacts of industrial wood pellet production done by companies like Drax and Enviva. Watch Now.
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Join us for a webinar on 29 October featuring speakers from our member groups whose stories of resistance to extractivism are included in the latest issue of Forest Cover: Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives.
Wed, 29 Oct 2025
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Wed, 29 Oct 2025
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Join us for a webinar on 29 October featuring speakers from our member groups whose stories of resistance to extractivism are included in the latest issue of Forest Cover: Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives.
Wed, 29 Oct 2025
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Wed, 29 Oct 2025
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm UTC
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Burning millions of tonnes of wood every year from forests undermines climate and nature goals. Subsidised industrial #BigBadBiomass production is turning natural forests and communities into sacrifice zones. Read more https://environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burning-billions-for-biomass/
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Burning millions of tonnes of wood every year from forests undermines climate and nature goals. Subsidised industrial #BigBadBiomass production is turning natural forests and communities into sacrifice zones. Read more https://environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burning-billions-for-biomass/
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Africa is standing up to #BigBadBiomass ✊🌍
On the International Dayof Action on Big Biomass, we say: Cut Subsidies, Not Forests! 🌳 🌲🌴🌱🌿
#IDoA #biomass #Africa @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @handsoffmotherearth.org
On the International Dayof Action on Big Biomass, we say: Cut Subsidies, Not Forests! 🌳 🌲🌴🌱🌿
#IDoA #biomass #Africa @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @handsoffmotherearth.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Africa is standing up to #BigBadBiomass ✊🌍
On the International Dayof Action on Big Biomass, we say: Cut Subsidies, Not Forests! 🌳 🌲🌴🌱🌿
#IDoA #biomass #Africa @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @handsoffmotherearth.org
On the International Dayof Action on Big Biomass, we say: Cut Subsidies, Not Forests! 🌳 🌲🌴🌱🌿
#IDoA #biomass #Africa @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @handsoffmotherearth.org
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Subsidized industrial #BigBadBiomass production is destroying natural forests and polluting local communities. Read more in the latest report from @environmentalpaper.bsky.social:
buff.ly/aad9KgI
buff.ly/aad9KgI
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Subsidized industrial #BigBadBiomass production is destroying natural forests and polluting local communities. Read more in the latest report from @environmentalpaper.bsky.social:
buff.ly/aad9KgI
buff.ly/aad9KgI
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Biomass energy is a false solution! It has no climate benefit and results in forests getting clearcut. And shamefully, it's being promoted by $250 billion spent in government subsidies globally. Learn more👇 @environmentalpaper.bsky.social
#BigBadBiomass
🖼️ : Heartwood Visuals
https://bit.ly/49acCPd
#BigBadBiomass
🖼️ : Heartwood Visuals
https://bit.ly/49acCPd
October 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Biomass energy is a false solution! It has no climate benefit and results in forests getting clearcut. And shamefully, it's being promoted by $250 billion spent in government subsidies globally. Learn more👇 @environmentalpaper.bsky.social
#BigBadBiomass
🖼️ : Heartwood Visuals
https://bit.ly/49acCPd
#BigBadBiomass
🖼️ : Heartwood Visuals
https://bit.ly/49acCPd
$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Money that could be better spent on genuine renewables. Read the new report by BAN: environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Money that could be better spent on genuine renewables. Read the new report by BAN: environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...
Campaigners hold a banner action against a new biomass plant in Stade, Germany today as part of the International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass. Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @nabu.de @robinwood.bsky.social
Cut Subsidies, Not Forests!
Cut Subsidies, Not Forests!
October 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Campaigners hold a banner action against a new biomass plant in Stade, Germany today as part of the International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass. Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @nabu.de @robinwood.bsky.social
Cut Subsidies, Not Forests!
Cut Subsidies, Not Forests!
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Cut subsidies, not trees. We’re joining the International Day of Action on Big Biomass to demand an end to the subsidies and loopholes propping up this dirty industry. Take action: https://rachelcarsoncouncil.salsalabs.org/wood-pellet-campaign-2025/index.html
#BigBadBiomass #BackDownBigBiomass
#BigBadBiomass #BackDownBigBiomass
October 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Cut subsidies, not trees. We’re joining the International Day of Action on Big Biomass to demand an end to the subsidies and loopholes propping up this dirty industry. Take action: https://rachelcarsoncouncil.salsalabs.org/wood-pellet-campaign-2025/index.html
#BigBadBiomass #BackDownBigBiomass
#BigBadBiomass #BackDownBigBiomass
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
This International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass, learn more through our community health survey and podcast: www.selc.org/news/pellet-...
Pellet plants saddle Southerners with nonstop noise, pollution
A new, first-of-its-kind study surveyed families living near biomass wood pellet plants in the South, shining a light on the significant and long-lasting harm these facilities have on nearby communiti...
www.selc.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass, learn more through our community health survey and podcast: www.selc.org/news/pellet-...
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
🌍 Today is International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass!
Follow us all day for stories, actions, & voices uniting to expose the truth behind this so-called “green” energy.
Biomass = no climate benefit, forests clearcut, $250B in subsidies wasted. 🌳
buff.ly/aad9KgI
Follow us all day for stories, actions, & voices uniting to expose the truth behind this so-called “green” energy.
Biomass = no climate benefit, forests clearcut, $250B in subsidies wasted. 🌳
buff.ly/aad9KgI
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
🌍 Today is International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass!
Follow us all day for stories, actions, & voices uniting to expose the truth behind this so-called “green” energy.
Biomass = no climate benefit, forests clearcut, $250B in subsidies wasted. 🌳
buff.ly/aad9KgI
Follow us all day for stories, actions, & voices uniting to expose the truth behind this so-called “green” energy.
Biomass = no climate benefit, forests clearcut, $250B in subsidies wasted. 🌳
buff.ly/aad9KgI
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Wälder nicht verfeuern! 🔥 #BigBadBiomass
Heute, am internationalen Aktionstag gegen das Verfeuern von Holz, fordern wir auf dem Berliner Teufelsberg den Stopp aller Kraftwerksprojekte zum Verfeuern von Waldholz und Altholz in #Berlin!
👉 Mehr Infos? www.robinwood.de/pressemittei...
Heute, am internationalen Aktionstag gegen das Verfeuern von Holz, fordern wir auf dem Berliner Teufelsberg den Stopp aller Kraftwerksprojekte zum Verfeuern von Waldholz und Altholz in #Berlin!
👉 Mehr Infos? www.robinwood.de/pressemittei...
October 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Wälder nicht verfeuern! 🔥 #BigBadBiomass
Heute, am internationalen Aktionstag gegen das Verfeuern von Holz, fordern wir auf dem Berliner Teufelsberg den Stopp aller Kraftwerksprojekte zum Verfeuern von Waldholz und Altholz in #Berlin!
👉 Mehr Infos? www.robinwood.de/pressemittei...
Heute, am internationalen Aktionstag gegen das Verfeuern von Holz, fordern wir auf dem Berliner Teufelsberg den Stopp aller Kraftwerksprojekte zum Verfeuern von Waldholz und Altholz in #Berlin!
👉 Mehr Infos? www.robinwood.de/pressemittei...
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Today a new report is published showing that just 5 economies spent nearly $250 billion on biomass subsidies over 22 years.
environmentalpaper.org/wp-content/u...
It’s time to Cut Subsidies, Not Forests and to #CutCarbonNotForests #BigBadBiomass
environmentalpaper.org/wp-content/u...
It’s time to Cut Subsidies, Not Forests and to #CutCarbonNotForests #BigBadBiomass
October 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Today a new report is published showing that just 5 economies spent nearly $250 billion on biomass subsidies over 22 years.
environmentalpaper.org/wp-content/u...
It’s time to Cut Subsidies, Not Forests and to #CutCarbonNotForests #BigBadBiomass
environmentalpaper.org/wp-content/u...
It’s time to Cut Subsidies, Not Forests and to #CutCarbonNotForests #BigBadBiomass
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
Drax's tree burning energy is destroying forests, polluting communities, harming wildlife & making the #climatecrisis worse! 🏭🌳🔥 Call on the Government to end subsidies for Drax's tree burning & reject Drax's AI data centre funding bid? tinyurl.com/yddsnsx7 #BigBadBiomass
Urgent: Please ask your MP to speak out against new funding for Drax’s tree burning
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched an investigation into the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and the world’s biggest tree burner, Drax, over concerns about its sourcing of wood pell...
tinyurl.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Drax's tree burning energy is destroying forests, polluting communities, harming wildlife & making the #climatecrisis worse! 🏭🌳🔥 Call on the Government to end subsidies for Drax's tree burning & reject Drax's AI data centre funding bid? tinyurl.com/yddsnsx7 #BigBadBiomass
Reposted by Environmental Paper Network
🛑We can’t expect nature to absorb more #CO2 while subsidising its destruction
🪵Europe is still subsidising harmful #bioenergy sources and incentivises increased logging, while this will increase #emissions for decades
🌳The EU must align its climate policies with the climate reality!
#BigBadBiomass
🪵Europe is still subsidising harmful #bioenergy sources and incentivises increased logging, while this will increase #emissions for decades
🌳The EU must align its climate policies with the climate reality!
#BigBadBiomass
October 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🛑We can’t expect nature to absorb more #CO2 while subsidising its destruction
🪵Europe is still subsidising harmful #bioenergy sources and incentivises increased logging, while this will increase #emissions for decades
🌳The EU must align its climate policies with the climate reality!
#BigBadBiomass
🪵Europe is still subsidising harmful #bioenergy sources and incentivises increased logging, while this will increase #emissions for decades
🌳The EU must align its climate policies with the climate reality!
#BigBadBiomass