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BISSAU, GUINEA-BISSAU—For the first time, representatives from 11 West African countries have agreed to take action aimed at curbing illegal rosewood logging and associated trade in the region. At the first international conference ever held in Guinea-Bissau, deputies from Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) member countries Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, […]

Read EIA’s brief overview of the Pelly Amendment and its uses and potential impacts.

GENEVA—Parties to the Montreal Protocol made concrete progress on HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) in an Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG 37) meeting this week in Geneva, but the pace of negotiations remains frustratingly slow. Parties agreed to schedule additional intersessional work to move the negotiations forward before the next OEWG in July, raising hopes that an ambitious global […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The United States and Honduran governments must support an international, independent investigation into the killing of high-profile environmental activist Berta Cáceres said Global Witness (GW) and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) on the eve of a meeting between Honduras and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington, D.C.1 The investigation should be […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed to designate the Sakhalin Bay-Nikolaya Bay-Amur River population of beluga whales as depleted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcomes the proposed designation which will prohibit any imports of belugas from this population into the United States. The […]

By Avipsa Mahapatra, EIA Climate Campaign Manager Parties to the Montreal Protocol are meeting in Geneva this week to discuss the implementation of the Dubai Pathway on HFCs; HFCs are super greenhouse gases used in refrigeration and air-conditioning. Now those of you following the Montreal Protocol story will remember where we left off last year: […]