China and Brazil announcements this week help set the stage for progress at Montreal Protocol By Avipsa Mahapatra, EIA International Climate Policy Analyst and Lisa Handy, EIA Senior Policy Advisor This week saw significant international progress in the fight against climate change. China and Brazil, two of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a momentous rulemaking that will prohibit high-global warming potential (GWP) hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from being used as alternatives under the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program. By avoiding an estimated 78 – 101 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2eq) in 2030, which is equal […]
EIA’s official 2014 Annual Report includes a complete financial report as well as the major accomplishments achieved by each of our three core campaigns. To mark its 25 years of success, this report also includes a look back at EIA’s history of lasting solutions to environmental crime around the world. To read the full 2014 […]
By Danielle Grabiel, EIA Senior Policy Analyst and Amy Zets, EIA Endangered Species Policy Analyst This week, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell travels to China and Vietnam, the world’s leading consumer markets for elephant ivory and rhino horn. Wildlife trafficking is high on the Secretary’s trip agenda, and indeed the U.S. agenda […]
By Amy Zets, EIA Endangered Species Policy Analyst Last Friday, the Unites States destroyed more than one ton of seized illegal ivory in the middle of Times Square, New York—the second time in two years that ivory has been crushed in the Unites States. The goal of an ivory crush is to send a signal […]