SPAR Norway and its parent company NorgesGruppen ASA are important facilitators of the distribution and sale of whale meat in Norway. Food products from the hunts of protected minke whales killed in Norwegian waters are being sold in a number of SPAR Norway outlets and other NorgesGruppen stores. Under an objection to the global moratorium […]
By Eric Parfait Essomba, EIA Congo Basin Campaigner This past June, more than 600 stakeholders met in Yaoundé, Cameroon as part of the 15th Meeting of Parties of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). The CBFP is a multi-stakeholder partnership that was launched in 2002 during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South […]
EIA has created a briefing to provide an overview of Peru’s Agency for Supervision of Forest Resources and Wildlife (OSINFOR), an autonomous government entity with sanctioning powers that has conducted thousands of field inspections of logging operations since 2009. OSINFOR’s contribution to increasing forest oversight and supply chain transparency offers a unique model with lessons […]
NGOs and Public Personalities Denounce Illegal Rosewood Traffic in Madagascar’s Protected Areas Following Violence to Environmental ActivistsTo read this release in French, click here. MADAGASCAR—While the Malagasy environmental activist Armand Marozafy was denied his request for parole this very day, Isabelle Autissier, Françis Hallé, Thierry Lhermitte, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, and Alexander von Bismarck appear together in a […]
Learn More on HFCs: External Resources • An exhaustive report by Michael Kauffield for EIA, May 2012, on the availability and potential of low-GWP alternatives to HFCs across various applications and sectors; calls on POM prohibitions of HFCs as most effective means to drive the phase-out. • Here is a review of EIA’s European supermarket […]