183 countries are meeting in Johannesburg next week to save the world’s plants and animals from extinction. This year they have an historic chance to protect some of the world’s most precious trees – and thwart the criminal gangs responsible for their destruction. JOHANNESBURG – As the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the […]
An EIA briefing for CITES SC67 and CoP17 The government of Madagascar has failed to fulfill its commitments under the 2013 Action Plan accompanying the listing of its populations of ebonies, palisanders, and rosewoods to Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Despite a logging ban put in place in […]
EIA has produced a new briefing ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species on the trade of a rare and valuable “red wood” known commonly as hongmu. Demand for this rosewood in China has grown exponentially over the past 15 years, from 144,500m3 imported in […]
A new documentary video released yesterday by investigative journalist groups RISE and OCCRP once again names Austrian timber giant Holzindustrie Schweighofer as one of the largest buyers of illegal timber in Romania. The 42-minute documentary details the illicit financial flows supporting criminal groups illegally logging throughout Romania’s forests, from the white collar, politically connected businessmen […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report released today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) studies few of the fastest growing multinational fast food chains in India, which are some of the country’s largest contributors to hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) emissions. The report, Transitioning HFCs in India, The Opportunity for Climate Friendly Cooling in the Fast Food Industry, looks […]
Transitioning HFCs in India, studies some of the fastest growing multinational fast food chains in India – a country with significantly increasing HFC emissions due to its expanding market. Eight fast food chains in India could add nearly 970,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent in HFC emissions by 2020. This cumulative impact is equivalent to […]