This is the 2015 Supplement to EIA’s 2014 report, Putting the Freeze on HFCs: A Global Digest of Available Climate-Friendly Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies. It is an overview of available technology alternatives to hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are extremely potent greenhouse gases. EIA continues to collect case studies from around the world of energy efficient […]
Last month, thousands of high school seniors received college acceptance letters and today, on College Signing Day, they are making the ultimate decision about where they’ll spend the next four years. So EIA was very excited to be presented with one of our supporter’s countdown of the top ten* universities for students interested in pursuing […]
To read in Romanian, click here. BUCHAREST — The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an environmental organization with offices in Washington, D.C. and London, has released a new video exposing the leadership of the largest forest products company in Romania, the Austrian-based Holzindustrie Schweighofer, willingly and knowingly accepting illegally harvested timber and incentivizing additional cutting through […]
To read this release in Japanese, please [click here]. Washington, D.C.—On the eve of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s historic address to the U.S. Congress, [conservationists urged him] to join the global fight to save Africa’s elephants. Twenty-four groups from Africa, Japan, the United States, and Europe urged Abe to enact immediate measures to ban domestic […]
EIA has exposed the largest forest products company in Romania, Holzindustrie Schweighofer, of buying illegally harvested timber and incentivizing additional cutting through a bonus system. Romanian media released a leaked letter from the CEO of Holzindustrie Schweighofer to the Romanian Prime Minister demanding a recent forest law be amended, threatening consequences to trade relations between […]
A coalition of 24 environmental groups from Africa, Japan, the United States, and Europe have urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to enact immediate measure to ban domestic trade in elephant ivory products in order to help reduce large-scale poaching of African elephants. Read the coalition’s letter in English or Japanese.