by Piotr Pogorzelski | Feb 10, 2022 | Energy Transition and Green Deal, Industry Transformation, Media Resources, Social affairs
IndustriAll European Trade Union, representing the interests of the sector’s workers and Cepi, the Confederation of paper and pulp producers, jointly call on the European Parliament to revise a number of aspects of the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’, the Union’s flagship legal...
by Piotr Pogorzelski | Feb 3, 2022 | Industry Statistics, Industry Transformation, Media Resources, Sustainability and Circularity
In the last months of 2021, Cepi, the European confederation of the paper and pulp industry, has welcomed a new member, CSAOSZ, the Hungarian Association of Packaging and Materials Handling. CSAOSZ represents more than 70 members in all types of...
by Piotr Pogorzelski | Dec 17, 2021 | Forest Resources, Industry Transformation, Media Resources, Product Innovation, Sustainability and Circularity
The European paper industry fully supports the EU ambition of making Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 and building a European circular economy. The carbon neutrality objective requires the European pulp and paper industry to become even more...
by Piotr Pogorzelski | Dec 15, 2021 | Industry Transformation, Media Resources
The European Commission has released a gas decarbonisation legislative package. It addresses the challenge of integrating renewable and low-carbon gases in the existing gas market. This is welcome news for the forest fibre and paper industry. Our sector is already...
by Piotr Pogorzelski | Dec 15, 2021 | Forest Resources, Industry Transformation, Media Resources, Product Innovation, Sustainability and Circularity
Climate science is clear: the reduction of fossil fuel emissions should take precedence as a solution to climate change. However, 1.5°C compatible IPCC scenarios referenced in the new EU Commission Communication on Sustainable Carbon Cycles include carbon removals, as...
by Piotr Pogorzelski | Nov 18, 2021 | Industry Transformation, Media Resources
As of January 2022, Ilkka Hämälä takes over from his predecessor Ignazio Capuano as Chairman of Cepi, one of the leading and most influential trade association representing the forest and bio-based industry sector in Brussels, the capital of the European Union. His...