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Last Wednesday, a day after Greenpeace released a new report airing fresh allegations that the Indonesian paper firm Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is “wreaking environmental havoc” in rainforests and peatlands, French retail giant Carrefour announced that it has suspended sourcing of APP products.

APP is part of the Sinar Mas group, and the Greenpeace report, titled How Sinar Mas is Pulping the Planet, maintains that the paper company is destroying Indonesia’s rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands so that it can feed its Sumatran based pulp mills, which then export pulp and paper products to a variety retailers worldwide. (more…)

Some are calling it “the world’s largest conservation agreement.”

On Tuesday, Canada’s leading pulp and paper companies, in unprecedented partnership with nine environmental groups, announced the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, which calls for ground-breaking environmental standards of forest management and conservation, protecting species at risk and action on climate change.

The historic agreement covers more than 72 million hectares of public forests licensed to FPAC member companies across Canada. It specifically recognizes the shared role that governments, industry and environmentalists play  in protecting and sustainably managing the Boreal Forest.

From the agreement: (more…)