Oil palm expansion in Colombia In collaboration with the Colombian human rights non-profit La Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, EIA invites you to learn about the devastating impact that the growing palm oil sector in Colombia has had on the local communities of Mapiripan, Colombia. This brief documentary, “Between Water and Oil […]
PEFC Austria Files Complaint Against Holzindustrie SchweighoferWASHINGTON, D.C. — Following company claims that undercover footage from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) showing officials accepting illegal wood was “unfounded,” the Austrian-based forest products company Holzindustrie Schweighofer now faces a formal complaint on compliance from the global forest certification organization PEFC. In a letter released today, PEFC officials […]
PARIS— After a five day preparatory meeting in Paris, Parties to the Montreal Protocol failed to finalize a formal negotiation process for discussions on hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) but agreed to hold an additional meeting prior to the Dubai Meeting of the Parties, which takes place early November. Support for tackling HFCs under the Ozone Convention has […]
Negotiations are currently underway for a new global climate agreement, in which all countries will commit to limiting greenhouse gas emissions to try and prevent the worst impacts of climate change. In many places, climate change is already impacting land and land use, with reduced food production among the earliest and most far-reaching consequences. Projections […]
By Christina Starr, Policy Analyst China’s Foreign Economic Cooperation Office under the Ministry of Environmental Protection (FECO), recently published the ‘First Catalogue of Recommended Substitutes for HCFCs.’ The catalogue lists natural low-GWP alternatives as the only substitutes it will support and accept in all but four types of equipment for the more than a dozen […]
EIA campaigners will be at the 36th Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Paris from Monday, July 20. At the 36th OEWG, Parties have four amendment proposals to consider for negotiating a deal on a global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); HFCs are a group of potent greenhouse gases used […]