By Lowell Chandler, EIA Climate Policy & Research Associate It’s the middle of summer and your air-conditioner is cranked to the max while your refrigerator constantly works to fight off the incoming heat and humidity. While relaxing in that cool breeze from your AC and drinking that refreshing beverage, your climate may feel just right, […]
Today, HFCs are the most commonly used refrigerants in new refrigeration and air-conditioning systems in the United States and increasingly in developing countries, but these refrigerants are potent greenhouse gases (GHGs) with global warming potentials (GWPs) ranging from hundreds to thousands of times higher than CO2. HFCs have been commercialized to replace ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbon […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Conservationists from leading African organizations are appealing to internet retail giant Rakuten to immediately cease sales of elephant ivory products during the current poaching epidemic. Rakuten is stimulating market demand for elephant ivory by facilitating the sale of tens of thousands of ivory products. “We appeal to Rakuten to help protect Africa’s […]
EIA submitted a petition to the U.S. government under the Pelly Amendment, urging that the Obama Administration impose trade sanctions on Mozambique. Read our two-page summary of the petition here and learn more about the Pelly Amendment here. Mozambique has consistently failed to live up to its obligations under the CITES, which is designed to […]
Climate change is manifesting itself in ever more alarming ways. Devastating bush fires, historic droughts, and recurrent flooding are wreaking havoc on the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. The impacts are most severe in developing countries, where communities already on the brink face a crisis of existential proportions. 2014 is the year […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a landmark rule making today, which will pave the way for the elimination of a tier of the most climate-damaging greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the United States. This historic climate proposal will prevent over 40 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions in 2020 through banning […]