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.

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.

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.

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...

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/

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

$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...

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

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

$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 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

This International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass, learn more through our community health survey and podcast: www.selc.org/news/pellet-...

🌍 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

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...

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

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

🛑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

On International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass a coalition of civil society groups is calling on the governments of Japan and South Korea to stop importing wood pellets sourced from natural forest deforestation. Visit: fwi.or.id Save the forests, save life. environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

#BigBadBiomass - Protest outside the biomass plant in Piesteritz today

New podcast published by @gfc-forest.bsky.social today exposes the serious impacts of eucalyptus plantations used to make charcoal for steel production and #biochar in Minas Gerais, Brazil: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOil... #BigBadBiomass

Today is the International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass and around the world groups are taking action to tell decision makers to stop funneling billions of dollars into the polluting biomass energy industry! You can still take part: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

The aim of the International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass is to amplify the destructive impacts of biomass energy on people and planet, like this article "Burning More Forests Won't Cool the Planet" by BAN Coordinator Peg Putt, featured in Hobart news today. environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

For the International day of Action on #BigBadBiomass Legacy Forest Defense Coalition in Washington (WLFDC) organized an action to highlight the imminent destruction of forests in the Chehalis River watershed - an area eyed by PNWRE & Drax for wood pellets. environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

It's the International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass & around the world groups are demanding that governments “Cut Subsidies, Not Forests”! Take part in our Social Media Action & post a picture of yourself to #BigBadBiomass. See our Toolkit here: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

All around the world, groups are preparing for a day of action to raise awareness of the impacts of the biomass industry. JOIN THEM! #BigBadBiomass🪚🌳 You can take part: organise an online or offline action on October 21st. Learn how: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

New report released on the International Day of Action on Big Biomass shows how #BigBadBiomass Burns Billions of public money, hurts the climate and nature, while masquerading as renewable energy. environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @dogwoodalliance.org

Oct 21: Groups worldwide are taking action to expose the impacts of the biomass industry. JOIN THEM! Organize an online/offline action and tag #BigBadBiomass. 👉 environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa... @dogwoodalliance.org @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @environmentalpaper.bsky.social

All around the world, groups are preparing for a day of action to raise awareness of the impacts of the biomass industry. JOIN THEM! #BigBadBiomass🪚🌳 You can take part: organise an online or offline action on October 21st. Learn how: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

All around the world, groups are preparing for a day of action to raise awareness of the impacts of the biomass industry. YOU are invited to join them! #BigBadBiomass🪚🌳 You can take part: organise an online or offline action on October 21st. Learn how: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

Since 2016, when Drax opened its manufacturing plant in Gloster, the facility has repeatedly violated its operating permits and paid multiple fines over excess emissions. That includes a $2.5 million fine in 2021 that represents one of the largest Clean Air Act penalties in Mississippi history.

🌍 The World Is Watching: A Global Call to Uphold the EU Deforestation Law Groups around the world are demanding no further delays or weakening of the #EUDR b/c our forests, communities, and the climate can’t wait. The latest 👉 environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/the-... #ClimateAction #EUClimateAction

US groups urge Brussels not to bow to Washington on deforestation law

🌍 The World Is Watching: A Global Call to Uphold the EU Deforestation Law Groups around the world are demanding no further delays or weakening of the #EUDR b/c our forests, communities, and the climate can’t wait. The latest 👉 environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/the-... #ClimateAction #EUClimateAction

Support the REUSE Act of 2025 - A bipartisan, commonsense bill that directs the U.S. EPA to study how reuse and refill systems can be expanded. Reusable packaging has the lowest carbon footprint of any packaging option. Join us and support: https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/v9QxUWSf9E6mejLqEbfQPA2

👏 New from World Rainforest Movement: a sharp briefing exposing how the pulp & paper industry manufactures demand to expand monoculture plantations at huge cost to forests & communities. Essential reading! 🌍 📖 www.wrm.org.uy/publications...

FSC has suspended its MoU with Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings (APRIL) after serious allegations of violence, including attacks on community members in #Indonesia. Full statement here: fsc.org/en/newscentr...

We need the EUDR. This proposal – at a time when we are experiencing a climate, nature and deforestation crisis and after the record-breaking fires in Europe this summer – should be firmly rejected.

🚨 Attack on North Sumatra's indigenous community linked to pulp & paper giant APRIL ❌ We must not admit these communities to be terrorised and assaulted by these companies private security forces. 👉 Read the entire story here: environmentalpaper.org/2025/09/indi...

🚨 Brussels is backtracking - again! @ec.europa.eu seeks another delay to the #EUDR, and every second means more forest lost to satisfy European consumption. The EU Parliament & Council MUST reject this proposal and implement the law by the end of 2025. 🔗 www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-de...

Join EPN's Biomass Action Network and our members on the 25th of September at 14.00 UTC for a webinar exploring the recently released report "Sustainable Biomass Program: Certifying the Unsustainable" Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

90 BILLION sheets of unwanted prescription info are printed in the U.S. each year for pharmacists 💊📄😱🤔 This bipartisan, common-sense solution could save trees, water & money while keeping providers up to date. Read our op-ed in Pharmaceutical Commerce: pharmaceuticalcommerce.com/view/congres...

All around the world, groups are preparing for a day of action to raise awareness of the impacts of the biomass industry. YOU are invited to join them! #BigBadBiomass🪚🌳 You can take part: organise an online or offline action on October 21st. Learn how: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

"For NGOs, the concern is that the FSC’s updated guidance could shift the balance toward corporate convenience just as APP and APRIL are seeking readmission. For the FSC, the credibility of its most ambitious accountability experiment hangs in the balance." @mongabay.com

🍁 Job Vacancy: Biomass Action Network Co-Coordinator 🌿 EPN International is hiring a Co-Coordinator to help manage our Biomass Action Network (BAN) — a global coalition working to address the impacts of biomass energy.

What is the #bioeconomy, and can it actually help us? 🤔 @fern.org’s must-watch short explores whether it’s hype or hope for a sustainable future. 🔗Watch the short video: youtu.be/PYjgdcrB3A8?...

📢 New report from EPN and Jikalahari: Old Habits Die Hard – Fresh Cuts 10 years after its big forest pledge, Asia Pulp & Paper is still: 🌳 driving deforestation 👥 violating human rights 🔥 fueling climate chaos 👉 Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/09/old-... #Indonesia #Forests #Climate

🍁 Position Announcement: EPN Biomass Action Network Co-Coordinator We’re looking for someone with strong experience in biomass policy and campaigning to join our team. 📄Job description: environmentalpaper.org/2025/09/job-... 📅 Deadline: 21 September 🌍Please share with your networks!

Join EPN's Biomass Action Network and our members on the 25th of September at 14.00 UTC for a webinar exploring the recently released report "Sustainable Biomass Program: Certifying the Unsustainable" Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🍁 Position Announcement: EPN Biomass Action Network Co-Coordinator We’re looking for someone with strong experience in biomass policy and campaigning to join our team. 📄Job description: environmentalpaper.org/2025/09/job-... 📅 Deadline: 21 September 🌍Please share with your networks!