India Acts on HFC-23 Super Pollutant as Montreal Protocol Negotiations Enter Critical Phase KIGALI—India has announced its chemical industry, with immediate effect, must collect and destroy emissions of its most potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23. The announcement comes at a critical time as the world’s governments seek to finalize a global agreement under the Montreal Protocol […]
EIA, others send letter to Prime Minister of Romania on forest sector transparency On October 12, EIA and the World Wide Fund for Nature and Greenpeace submitted a letter to the Prime Minister of Romania Dacian Ciolos, requesting transparent public access to key forest sector data within the country. Romania is home to Europe’s last […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, Romania’s Minister of Environment, Water, and Forests (MMAP) Cristiana Pașca Palmer announced a decision to ban trophy hunting of brown bears, grey wolves, lynx, and wild cats, saving an estimated 1,691 animals from becoming trophies. Romania’s virgin forests are home to most of Europe’s remaining large carnivores, and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) […]
In an historic move, 183 governments gathered in South Africa adopted a number of new measures to regulate the global rosewood trade. JOHANNESBURG — The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) adopted new regulations that will subject approximately 80 percent of the multi-billion dollar global trade in precious rosewoods to stricter regulation and […]
JOHANNESBURG –The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on Japan to close its domestic ivory market because it contributes to illegal trade and the poaching of Africa’s elephants. EIA’s appeal comes on the heels of a resolution adopted by countries yesterday at the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Caught Flora and […]