WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today applauded Congressmen Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Daniel Donovan (R-NY) for sending a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 16 members of the United States House of Representatives to Japanese Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae urging the government of Japan to enact a ban on its domestic trade […]
On September 9, 2016 a bipartisan coalition of 16 members of the United States House Representatices sent a letter to Japanese Ambassador Kenichir Sasae urging the government of Japan to enact a ban on their domestic trade in ivory. Read the Full Letter
Hurray! Yahoo! Japan announced banning ivory sales in August 2019! Learn more here. Archived Action Alert: Yahoo! Japan, through both its shopping and auctions sites, is a leading internet seller of elephant ivory products, many of which have an illegal origin. At a time when 30,000 elephants are being killed annually for their ivory, it’s […]
by Christina Starr and Avipsa Mahapatra, EIA Global Climate Campaign Parties to the Montreal Protocol met last month in Vienna to negotiate a global phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), super-greenhouse gases that are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In a speech in Vienna, John Kerry called the HFC agreement, […]
As Parties to Montreal Protocol negotiate a global agreement for an HFC phase-down this year, several safety standards and building codes are threatening to limit the climate ambition and effectiveness of this agreement by blocking the uptake of low global warming potential (GWP), energy efficient alternatives to hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)-based cooling around the world. This briefing […]
HFC-134a, a type of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant with a high global warming poten- tial (GWP) 1,430 times that of carbon dioxide, is used in virtually all new U.S. domestic refrigerators and freezers. Under proposed U.S. pol- icy directives both at federal and state levels, HFC-134a will be phased out of the U.S. market for new […]