2024-07-21
MONTEVIDEO - The world is made of paper and bought with paper: How far can a company modify the present of a nation and influence its future with promises that never come?
Eucalyptus and its transformation into cellulose pulp have been a form of veiled economic, social, environmental and political invasion used by the Finnish multinational UPM in Uruguay.
This investigation, carried out in text and image by journalists G Jaramillo Rojas, Dahian Cifuentes, Marta Saiz and Bernat Marrè, exposes not only the complex power dynamics and environmental responsibilities faced by international pulp companies, but also raises crucial questions about the sustainability of UPM's practices, the ethical implications of its global expansion and the urgent need, as demanded by social movements in Finland and Uruguay, to re-evaluate economic growth models linked to industries that are both socially and ecologically unsustainable.
Photo: Bernat Marrè
Mentor
Supported
€23,990 allocated on 19/02/2024ID
ENV1/2024/413Grant
Tags
PUBLICATIONS
- La transición verde en Europa pasa por la pampa: así es el impacto de las fábricas de celulosa finlandesas en Uruguay, Público, 21/07/2024
- El mundo es de papel y con papel se compra, Brecha,16/08/2024
- El mundo es de papel y con papel se compra: bosques finlandeses en la pampa uruguaya, Revista Late, 27/08/2024
- Finnish Forests in the Uruguayan Pampa, Revolve Media, 29/08/2024
COUNTRIES
- Finland
- Uruguay
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