Environmental Paper Network

Environmental Paper Network (EPN) began in 2002 as an unlikely alliance of organizations with very diverse approaches to a common problem Ñ addressing the scale of the challenges and opportunities for social justice and conservation presented by the expanding forest, pulp and paper industry. Today, EPN is a network of over 100 organizations working in alignment towards a common goal to create the transformational change in the industry described in the Global Paper Vision. The EPN has become a model for collaboration that is looked to by advocates around the world. EPN is a respected, credible, and influential voice on pulp and paper sustainability issues across the global supply chain and paperÕs life cycle. Our network of non-profit organizations is effectively empowering and motivating consumers, corporations, organizations and governments to protect forests, climate, air, water and communities through more sustainable production and consumption of pulp and paper. EPN facilitates a powerful movement of independent organizations, strategically leveraging their collective expertise and resources, to initiate change and environmental improvement in the pulp and paper industry. EPNÕs unification of the many environmental organizations working to transform the paper industry has helped to catalyze significant market shifts. Tangible evidence of this shift includes the legal protection of millions of acres of Endangered Forests; significant increases in the number of paper-related certifications and forest acres certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC); the growing number of large companies developing environmental paper policies; the rapidly growing availability of genuine environmental papers to purchasers; decreases in U.S. over-consumption; and increased demand for, and use of, recovered fiber.