Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity. The company’s product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, newspapers, […]

Water is never far from the news these days. This summer, northern India experienced one of its heaviest monsoon seasons in 80 years, leaving more than 800 people dead and forcing another 100,000 from their homes. Meanwhile, Central Europe faced its worst flooding in decades after heavy rains swelled major rivers like the Elbe and […]

POTICO consists of a portfolio of revenue streams—sustainable palm oil, certified timber, carbon offsets—designed to divert planned oil palm plantations onto degraded lands and bring the forests that were slated for conversion into certified sustainable forest management. Project POTICO aims to have 250,000-1,250,000 acres of degraded land converted into oil palm plantations and a corresponding […]

However, the world’s forests have been under significant pressure. After the last ice age but before the dawn of agriculture, forests covered about half of Earth’s land mass. But today, only half of this original forest cover remains. Forty percent has been cleared at some point and is considered “working”, “managed”, or “fragmented” forest. Only […]

UNDERSTANDING THE BROADER IMPORTANCE OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Forests are important ecosystems and natural resources. For instance, they: Provide wood for timber, paper, and fuel; Protect watersheds by filtering water and preventing erosion into streams and rivers; Help regulate the global climate by storing vast amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas; and Provide opportunities for […]

A WRI AND NEWPAGE PARTNERSHIP Project POTICO (Palm Oil, Timber, Carbon Offsets) is a revolutionary new approach to ecosystem management in Indonesia that is designed to improve sustainability in a region known for its high deforestation rate. POTICO’s goal is to prevent deforestation by diverting planned oil palm plantations away from forests and on to […]

Oil palm plantations generate positive benefits. They create jobs, contribute to national GDP, and meet global demand for the highly useful oil. However oil palm development in Indonesia has also been associated with significant negative social and environmental consequences. When oil palm plantations are established by clearing virgin rainforests, valuable ecosystem services such as carbon […]

Project POTICO (Palm Oil, Timber, Carbon Offsets) is a bold three-year, multimillion dollar initiative led by WRI and fully funded by NewPage Corporation to preserve endangered virgin rainforests in Indonesia. WRI is working with and engaging a variety of stakeholders across relevant sectors throughout the life of the project.

According to some estimates, approximately 15 million hectares (37 million acres) of degraded lands exist in Indonesia, concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Most of these lands were cleared years ago for timber or wood fiber and have neither returned as healthy forest nor been actively managed on a large scale for other […]