In eastern Borneo, an APRIL-linked company is reported to have cut at least 35,000 hectares of rainforest, converting it to acacia and eucalyptus plantations and expanding further. The conversion also affected local community gardens and orchards, while the remaining dense tropical forests continue to face pressure. More details can be downloaded from the link below:

In OECD countries, nearly 50% of renewable energy is derived from crops and forests. Carbon accounting loopholes and policy incentives continue to drive expansion of the biomass industry. Under the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero scenario, woody biomass supply triples and short-rotation woody crops increase thirteenfold by 2030, putting forests under growing pressure and threatening millions of hectares of natural…

Indonesia is accelerating the energy transition to cut carbon emissions, strengthen energy security, and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, aiming to achieve Net Zero Emissions (NZE) by 2060. A key part of accelerating the energy transition is regulation and policy; the Indonesian government issued the Second Nationally Determined Contribution (SNDC) in December 2025 to update climate targets with a more…

EPN’s Biomass Action Network has sent a letter to the UN outlining the negative impacts of technologies linked to large-scale biomass energy, including: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), biomass co-firing, biomass-based e-fuels, industrial charcoal for “green” steel and biochar for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). It was signed by 51 organisations from around the world.  The submission was made in response to a call by…

On 16 October 2024, the European Parliament officially adopted a proposal to postpone the implementation of the European Union’s Zero Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) for 12 months, from 30 December 2024 to 30 December 2025. This postponement responds to concerns from member countries, non-EU countries and global business actors related to supply chain readiness to meet regulatory requirements. However, this proposal…

Portrait of Indigenous Peoples participating in the action “Demanding Political Promises for Indigenous Peoples” near the presidential palace – Jakarta. A decade of Joko Widodo’s regime has left a legacy of sins against Indigenous Peoples. This regime has betrayed the 1945 Constitution, gone back on its political promises, and failed to protect the people. There has been no goodwill shown…

AERIAL PORTRAIT OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NUSANTARA CAPITAL CITY 1 The continuation likelihood of the IKN Mega Project in East Kalimantan, Nusantara, is growing stronger. The Prabowo Subianto-Gibran Rakabuming Raka pair, advocating for sustainability, currently leads in preliminary assessments based on data from the KPU’s SIREKAP. This commitment to sustainability is feared to overshadow efforts to address the ongoing spatial issues…

Jakarta, February 15, 2024 – Issues of justice and disparities in forest and land ownership have always become political commodities in every change of government. Both during the 2019 election between Prabowo Subianto vs. Joko Widodo, as well as in the last presidential debate on Sunday, February 4th, 2024, which raised themes of Social Welfare, Culture, Education, Information Technology, Health,…

The people of Aru have a long history of tenurial conflicts, fighting against large-scale land investment plans that threaten their living spaces. Since the 1990s, communities have faced corporations exploiting forests and fish resources in Aru. In 2013, the communities strongly refused the plans to make sugarcane plantation which covers almost 70% of Aru’s land area. Finally, in 2018, the…

Biomass accelerates climate change and destroys forest ecosystems In Japan, the co-firing of biomass in coal power plants and conversion of coal-fired power plants to biomass are currently taking place at a rapid pace. Already 31 coal-fired units, or about half of the coal-fired power plants of major power utilities, are co-firing with biomass.1 At least 40 of the renewable…