Environmental Paper Network

Name

Environmental Paper Network

Legal name

Environmental Paper Network

Website

https://environmentalpaper.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Asheville, North Carolina

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: EPN operates as a nonprofit coalition supported by donations and grants from foundations, charitable organizations, and individual supporters. The organization hosts a donation page on its website for public contributions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Environmental Paper Network (EPN) is a global nonprofit coalition that provides free advocacy tools, research resources, and policy frameworks focused on transforming the paper and biomass industries. Its core offerings include the Paper Calculator™ (a science-based life cycle assessment tool), the EcoPaper Database for sustainable sourcing evaluation, mapping tools that track industry expansion, and policy frameworks such as the Global Paper Vision. EPN coordinates collective action among over 350 civil society organizations across five regions through three regional hubs (North America, China, and International) and structured working groups.

Product overview

Environmental Paper Network is a coalition-based platform offering a suite of advocacy tools, research resources, and policy frameworks focused on transforming the paper and biomass industries. The core offering includes The Paper Calculator™ (a life cycle assessment tool for measuring paper environmental impacts), the EcoPaper Database (for sustainable sourcing), and several mapping and information tools that track industry expansion. Supporting these are policy frameworks including the Global Paper Vision and Biomass Delusion Statement, along with publications like the 'Red Lines' guidance for financial institutions. EPN also facilitates webinars and working groups across regions. The network operates through three hubs (North America, China, and International) and coordinates collective action among over 350 civil society organizations worldwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Paper Calculator™

Quantifiable outcome

• Hundreds of millions of tons of unnecessary paper use prevented through network campaigns
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• China Environmental Paper Network (CEPN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCEPN maintains its own website and focuses on sustainable practices, responsible investment, and forest protection in China, while contributing to EPN's global goals. Operates as EPN's regional hub for China.
• Forests & FinancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCivil society initiative that tracks financial relationships and improves transparency in pulp, palm oil, rubber, soy, beef, and biomass sectors. EPN works closely with this initiative to monitor pulp and biomass project financing.
• BankTrackmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCivil society organization providing database of 'Dodgy Deals' including profiles on Asia Pulp & Paper, APRIL, Suzano, UPM and other forest-risk companies. EPN refers to BankTrack's database for company and project profiles.
• IPCCminorOthersEPN references IPCC guidelines and reports on biomass carbon accounting in its policy advocacy work, though this is not a formal partnership.

Scale indicators6 records

Direct peers

• ClientEarth: ClientEarth is an environmental law charity using litigation and regulatory engagement to address climate, forests, and biodiversity. It complements EPN's advocacy with legal tools, particularly in EU jurisdictions, and is an EPN member organization.
• Fern: Fern is a Brussels-based NGO focused on forest policy and EU regulation impacting forests and people. It is comparable to EPN's European working-group work, particularly on EU due-diligence and forest-risk commodity regulation.
• Canopy: Canopy is a Canadian-based nonprofit focused specifically on protecting forests through sustainable paper, packaging, and textile supply chains. It is highly comparable to EPN — both concentrate advocacy on paper/biomass supply chains, and Canopy's EcoPaper Database is in fact hosted alongside EPN's tools.
• Rainforest Action Network (RAN): RAN campaigns to protect forests, the climate, and human rights by challenging corporate power. It is a direct peer — a member of EPN's steering committee that runs comparable corporate-accountability campaigns against forest-risk industries.
• Dogwood Alliance: Dogwood Alliance is a US-South focused environmental organization protecting forests from biomass, wood-pellet, and paper-industry expansion. It is an EPN member organization with directly overlapping campaign agendas in North America.

Broad incumbents

• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC): FSC is the leading global forest certification body setting standards for responsible forest management. It overlaps with EPN's mission of transforming forest-product supply chains, but operates through market-based certification rather than advocacy coalition campaigns.
• Greenpeace: Greenpeace is a global environmental campaigning organization with long-standing forest and biomass work. Multiple EPN staff and member organizations trace roots to Greenpeace, and it is an EPN member — comparable in advocacy style but with a much broader thematic scope.
• WWF International: WWF is a large, broad-scope conservation organization with global forest and pulp/paper programs. It is a member of EPN's Global Paper Network, comparable in scale and global reach but with a much wider mandate than EPN's paper/biomass focus.
• NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council): NRDC is a major environmental advocacy organization active on forest sourcing and corporate accountability. It is an EPN Biomass Action Network member, comparable in coalition engagement but with a much broader environmental portfolio.

Others

• BankTrack: BankTrack is a civil-society tracking site for financial sector involvement in controversial sectors, including pulp and paper. It is a close EPN partner providing the 'Dodgy Deals' database used in EPN's responsible-finance campaigns.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/environmental-paper-network

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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