WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for an end to the expensive UN program that pays over a billion dollars a year to capture and destroy the super greenhouse gas HFC-23. On the eve of an expected decision by the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism on the HFC-23 methodology, EIA is calling for the methodology […]
While the passage of the Lacey Act Amendment is a landmark step, it is far from the end of the story. The proper implementation of these provisions will require good regulations and long-term engagement by government agencies, civil society and the private sector. The Lacey Act has the potential to empower communities and civil society […]
The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created in 2003 to allow emission-reduction or removal projects in developing countries to earn carbon credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2. These certified emission reduction (CERs) can be traded and sold, and used by industrialized countries to a meet part of their emission reduction targets […]
Since 2001, when Nissui purchased Gorton’s, more than 2,700 whales have been killed by Kyodo Senpaku. This is part of the more than 175,000 whales that Nissui is responsible for killing since it began hunting whales in the 1930s. Over its long history of whaling, Nissui killed over 1,700 humpback and over 44,000 fin whales, […]
Illegal logging has concrete, adverse impacts on both the U.S. and global economies. Left unchallenged, illegal logging depresses global prices for timber and timber products by an average of 7 – 16 percent. Among U.S. imports, approximately 25 percent of all hardwood plywood and 10 percent of sawn timber may be from illegal sources. For […]
The breadth and magnitude of climate change ranks it as the gravest threat that humanity has ever faced. And while Parties may offer reasons why the Montreal Protocol cannot or should not act to enlarge its mandate to include limiting and eliminating GHG emissions from ODS, ODS substitutes, and ODS by-products, none of these reasons […]