As the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MoP28) gets underway in Kigali, Rwanda, the momentum to tackle dangerous climate change has never been greater. One of the two thresholds to ratify the Paris Agreement has already been met and it is widely expected to come into force by the end of […]
To read EIA’s report in Japanese, click here. EIA’s report, The Dirty Secrets of Japan’s Illegal Ivory Trade, reveals a 20-year history of broken commitments by Japan to enact effective controls to prevent poached tusks from being sold domestically or for illegal export. The report follows shocking new elephant census data revealing a 30% decline […]
An EIA briefing for CITES SC67 and CoP17 The government of Madagascar has failed to fulfill its commitments under the 2013 Action Plan accompanying the listing of its populations of ebonies, palisanders, and rosewoods to Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Despite a logging ban put in place in […]
EIA has produced a new briefing ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species on the trade of a rare and valuable “red wood” known commonly as hongmu. Demand for this rosewood in China has grown exponentially over the past 15 years, from 144,500m3 imported in […]
Transitioning HFCs in India, studies some of the fastest growing multinational fast food chains in India – a country with significantly increasing HFC emissions due to its expanding market. Eight fast food chains in India could add nearly 970,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent in HFC emissions by 2020. This cumulative impact is equivalent to […]
As Parties to Montreal Protocol negotiate a global agreement for an HFC phase-down this year, several safety standards and building codes are threatening to limit the climate ambition and effectiveness of this agreement by blocking the uptake of low global warming potential (GWP), energy efficient alternatives to hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)-based cooling around the world. This briefing […]