WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) announced they are petitioning the Obama Administration to impose trade sanctions against Mozambique in response to rampant poaching. Since 2010, Mozambican nationals have slaughtered up to 1,862 rhinos in South Africa, as well as thousands of elephants in Tanzania and […]
On June 27, 2014, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) submitted a petition under the Pelly Amendment to the United States government to certify Mozambique as diminishing the effectiveness of CITES and requested trade sanctions against Mozambique until it comes into compliance with its CITES obligations. Read the press release […]
Super Pollutants Act Proposes New Solutions to Tackling Most Severe Greenhouse GasesWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) today announced plans to introduce the first bipartisan climate bill of 2014, calling for immediate action on super greenhouse gases, including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are hundreds to thousands of times more damaging […]
As major international retailers and manufacturers met in Paris this week for the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Global Summit 2014, EIA campaigners at the event stressed the importance of its members publicly reaffirming their commitment to begin phasing out climate-destroying refrigerants and to announce the steps they intend to take towards this objective. This call […]
In 2010, the Consumer Goods Forum made international headlines with its ambitious pledge to being phasing out HFCs by 2015. Four years later, we review the CGF’s progress to date and identify further opportunities to protect the global climate by eliminating climate-destroying refrigerants. Our research shows that some CGF members have made significant efforts to […]
New report reveals how Japan’s imports of Chinese wood products fuel illegal logging in Russia’s eastern forestsTOKYO – Significant quantities of illegal timber products from the forests of Siberia and the Russian Far East are flowing into Japan, according to a new report by the US-based nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). While the United States […]