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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

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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The EU needs to stop incentivising #biomass in the Renewable Energy Directive (#RED) and the EU Emissions Trading System (#EUETS). The Biomass Action Network of EPN, together with more than 40 NGOs, calls on the #EU to stop incentivising biomass in RED & ETS legislation. A thread🧵
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Check the latest report on Aperam BioEnergía’s expansion in Brazil and the impact so-called “green steel & charcoal” has on water availability, biodiversity and local communities. Check this report by @gfc-forest.bsky.social, @handsoffmotherearth.org and published with the Biomass Action Network👇
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WE ARE HIRING! 👀 Are you a communications professional looking for a part-time role? EPN is recruiting a Communications Professional for the Forests are not Fuel Europe (FANFE) campaign on the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS).
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🌳 Help make saving paper the new default! A new USDOL proposal could save 20 billion sheets of paper (approx. 2.2 million trees) annually by allowing e-delivery by default, while preserving the right to receive paper. Learn more: environmentalpaper.org/2026/08/hist... Submit a comment by Sept. 21
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🌳 📄 830 million pages. 100,000 trees. 90 million gallons of water. A proposed SEC rule could cut that waste by making e-delivery the default while keeping the right to paper. Tell the SEC: support the change by Sept. 21 👇 environmentalpaper.org/SEC-reform
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
😬 McDonald’s, addicted much? McDonald’s Nederlands has been ordered to stop using single-use cups for customers eating & drinking in its restaurants in the Netherlands.The important question is not why is it happening now, but why it took an enforcement action to make it happen at all.
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today we celebrate the National Day of Cerrado in Brazil! 🥳 Cerrado is a beautiful ecosystem, rich in animals and nature. Protecting the Cerrado and its peoples, whose livelihoods depend on healthy ecosystems, is essential. #Cerrado #IndigenousRights #DiaNacionalCerrado
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🌳 📄 830 million pages. 100,000 trees. 90 million gallons of water. A proposed SEC rule could cut that waste by making e-delivery the default while keeping the right to paper. Tell the SEC: support the change by Sept. 21 👇 environmentalpaper.org/SEC-reform
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🌳 Help make saving paper the new default! A new USDOL proposal could save 20 billion sheets of paper (approx. 2.2 million trees) annually by allowing e-delivery by default, while preserving the right to receive paper. Learn more: environmentalpaper.org/2026/08/hist... Submit a comment by Sept. 21
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Join us on October 21st! ✊ @dogwoodalliance.org @nrdc.org @foeeurope.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social @foejapan.bsky.social @sierraclub.org @gfc-forest.bsky.social @zeroasts.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @canopee.bsky.social @rachelcarsondc.bsky.social @stand.earth @caneurope.org
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🗓️ Save the Date: Oct 21st, 2026! On this day, the Biomass Action Network will hold an International Day of Action, in a global display of opposition against the biomass energy industry ✊ #BigBadBiomass Join us to expose the serious harm that large-scale burning of woody biomass causes.
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🌳 Help make saving paper the new default! A new USDOL proposal could save 20 billion sheets of paper (approx. 2.2 million trees) annually by allowing e-delivery by default, while preserving the right to receive paper. Learn more: environmentalpaper.org/2026/08/hist... Submit a comment by Sept. 21
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Historic Opportunity to Reduce Unnecessary Paper: U.S. DOL Advances Electronic Delivery Reform - Environmental Paper Network
At a Glance
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Default paper disclosures for ERISA health plans come with a major cost: 📄 20.4B sheets annually = 🌳 2.2M trees 💨 1.35B lbs of CO₂ 💧 2.16B gallons of water A new proposal would allow group health plans to make e-delivery the default, while preserving the right to receive paper.
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Historic Opportunity to Reduce Unnecessary Paper: U.S. DOL Advances Electronic Delivery Reform - Environmental Paper Network
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🇬🇧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
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🫨 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-...
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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.
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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
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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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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 24/06/2026
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.
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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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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Very interesting 🧵and report:
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🏭💸 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
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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...
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Ei polteta tulevaisuutta @eipolteta.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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...
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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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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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.
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
📝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...
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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.
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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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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Backers admit little knowledge about the industry and its history of pollution violations
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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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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🏭 🇳🇱 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 💸💸
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Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 04/05/2026
‘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
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‘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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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🌿 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?
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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 👇
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Dogwood Alliance @dogwoodalliance.org · 18/05/2026
#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
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"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."
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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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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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
Image with three photographs: Top photo shows a data centre, bottom left shows Drax power station with its cooling towers, bottom right shows a photo of a forest clearcut in the Southeastern USA taken by Dogwood Alliance. Caption: Data centre companies: Don't Partner with Drax!
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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
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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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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🇪🇪’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
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📰 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.
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🌳 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
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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.
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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™)
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This week, The Guardian highlighted a report which states what the Biomass Action Network has been saying all along: burning wood for energy is not carbon-neutral! In fact,“wood can emit twice as much carbon per unit of energy produced as fossil gas and is far less efficient in generating energy”.
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Adi Renaldi @adirenaldi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
My investigation into pulp giant APRIL Group’s carbon project published by @thediplomat.com supported by @pulitzercenter.org reveals how it was built on hypothetical threats unlikely to materialize, posing a risk of ‘hot air’. Here is what I found 👇🏽: thediplomat.com/2026/03/how-...
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How an Indonesian Pulp Giant Built a Carbon Project to Save a Forest From Itself
A months-long investigation into APRIL Group’s flagship Riau Ecosytem Restoration reveals how its carbon project was built on a hypothetical deforestation threat that is unlikely to materialize.
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🌳🌏 Today is Earth Day! At EPN, we strive to celebrate Earth every day by protecting forests and recognising their ecological and social value. 🪵 However, on this Earth Day, we would like to talk about the #WoodSupplyGap. Have you heard of it?
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
📄 Europe's largest #pulp and #paper companies, including SCA, UPM, and The Navigator Company, are pressuring the European Commission to weaken near-term targets of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (#LULUCF) Regulation. Read the report 👉 environmentalpaper.org/report/pulpi...
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Environmental Paper Network @environmentalpaper.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Have you explored our latest update of the Paper Calculator? If you want to understand the impact of your paper consumption - namely if you’re a large organisation - this is a great tool for you! 👇 calculator.environmentalpaper.org/index.html #PaperConsumption #PaperCalculator
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 06/04/2026
A new data from NGO Auriga Nusantara reveals a 66% spike in forest loss across Indonesia. Satellite data shows that government-backed projects and poor spatial planning now threaten to derail the nation’s 2030 climate goals. Story by Hans Nicholas Jong for #Mongabay.
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Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s deforestation surged in 2025, rising 66% from the previous year, marking a sharp reversal after several years of decline, according to new data from the NGO Auriga Nusantara.…
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EASAC - European Academies Science Advisory Council @easac.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In letter to @ipcc.bsky.social, leading scientists, including #EASAC experts, urge the #IPCC to fix loopholes in its carbon-accounting rules. They warn: splitting land-use and #energy accounting lets countries claim #CO2 cuts not reflected in real emissions. 🌱 Read it here: scienceonbiomass.org/
Photo by Ruben Hanssen/Unsplash. Scientist letter to the IPCC on
the topic of carbon accounting for forest bioenergy: https://scienceonbiomass.org/
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