Press release: All green products start with a #Greensource

Press release: All green products start with a #Greensource

Climate neutrality with Europe’s forest fibre industry Cepi, the Confederation of European Paper Industries, and EPIS, the European Pulp Industry Sector Association and its members, present their #GreenSource initiative, a European-wide effort to explain how the...
LCA tool for paper products

LCA tool for paper products

In December 2019, the European Commission presented its ambitious Green Deal roadmap, a comprehensive strategy aimed at putting Europe on the right track for climate neutrality in 2050 while encouraging sustainable economic growth. In this strategy, the role of...
Cepi welcomes game-changing ideas to support the sustainability commitment of our industry

Cepi welcomes game-changing ideas to support the sustainability commitment of our industry

Today, the Confederation of European Paper Industries (Cepi) announced the 2020 edition of its annual Blue Sky Young Researchers Award contest. Because innovation is crucial for the future of our industry, every year, we honour ground-breaking research work with the...
New JRC study misinterprets satellite data on forest cover and risks misguiding EU climate policy choices

New JRC study misinterprets satellite data on forest cover and risks misguiding EU climate policy choices

Last week, the scientific journal «the Nature» published an article “Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015” based on a study by the European Commission Joint Research Centre bioeconomy unit based in Ispra, Italy. The study claims...

PRESS RELEASE: EuRIC joins the European Paper Recycling Council to achieve European Green Deal targets

EuRIC joins the European Paper Recycling Council to achieve European Green Deal targets Getting paper recycling to even higher levels and improving the recyclability of paper based products – this is the main mission of the European Paper Recycling Council, an...

Call for modification of SUPD definitions to achieve Circular Economy objectives

Our commitment is to show that sustainability and competitiveness can go hand in hand which is why our fibre-based products are essential for Europe’s steady and sustainable transition to a Circular Economy while preserving the EU Single Market.  We would like to...