At last year’s Meeting of the Parties, delegates from over 140 nations had the opportunity to take action on a number of agenda items for climate mitigation consistent with their obligations for ozone protection. The HFC Phase-out Amendment proposals, a decision on ODS Banks, and action to maximize direct transitions to low-GWP alternatives all had […]
On November 16th, 2011 EIA sent a letter to Walmart Inquiring about their HFC policy and plans to enact the HFC policy agreed last year by the Consumer Goods Forum whereby all new stores built by CGF members starting in 2015 will use only HFC free refrigeration. Read the letter
WASHINGTON, D.C. – China Threatens Massive Venting of Super Greenhouse Gases in Attempt to Extort Billions as UNFCCC Meeting Approaches In the run‐up to the international climate negotiations in Durban later this month, China has responded to efforts to ban the trading of widely discredited HFC‐23 offsets by threatening to release huge amounts of the potent industrial chemical into […]
NEW YORK — The United States’ prohibition on smuggling of illegally harvested wood has won silver in the 2011 Future Policy Awards as one of the world’s most inspiring and innovative forest policies. The three policies most effectively contributing to the conservation and sustainable development of forests for current and future generations were honored today […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Much of the media coverage regarding the latest enforcement action contains factual errors and misinformation about both the Lacey Act and the cases in question. Below, EIA has attempted to address some common questions in the wake of the 24 August action, from our own perspective as experts on illegal logging and […]