Resources

After more than three decades of undeniable success, earning it the title of the world’s most successful multilateral environmental agreement, the Montreal Protocol is now being tested. Following revelations of unexplained CFC-11 emissions in 2018, legitimate questions have been raised as to whether the Montreal Protocol’s institutions and controls are fit for purpose, not only […]

  En junio de 2018, el Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales, IDEAM, reportó que dos tercios de la deforestación en Colombia durante el 2017 ocurrió en tres departamentos de la región amazónica: Caquetá, Putumayo y Amazonas. En conjunto, dichosdepartamentos perdieron alrededor de 144.147 hectáreas de bosque, más del doble del área deforestada en […]

  Download the full report / Download the Executive Summary En Français Executive Summary in Chinese The Congo Basin, home to the second largest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon and equal in size to half of the continental United States, is of vital importance for thousands of species, including our own. For […]

  Téléchargez le rapport / Principaux Resultats Download the Report in English Executive Summary in Chinese Le bassin du Congo, qui abrite la deuxième plus grande forêt tropicale du monde après l’Amazonie, s’étend sur une super cie équivalente à la moitié de la zone continentale des États- Unis et revêt une importance capitale pour des […]

Preventing emissions of fluorinated refrigerants such as HFCs from “F-gas banks” is the single biggest near-term strategy to reduce greenhouse gases. The IPCC special report on limiting global warming to within 1.5˚C also underlined need for faster and deeper HFC emission reductions beyond those anticipated under full implementation of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal […]

Authorized Plunder The ongoing sale of “pre-Convention” specimens of Pterocarpus erinaceus in Guinea-Bissau has quickly become the archetype of an ill-conceived stockpile disposal process that directly undermines the integrity of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). New findings by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) indicate that the […]