Negotiations are currently underway for a new global climate agreement, in which all countries will commit to limiting greenhouse gas emissions to try and prevent the worst impacts of climate change. In many places, climate change is already impacting land and land use, with reduced food production among the earliest and most far-reaching consequences. Projections […]
EIA campaigners will be at the 36th Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Paris from Monday, July 20. At the 36th OEWG, Parties have four amendment proposals to consider for negotiating a deal on a global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); HFCs are a group of potent greenhouse gases used […]
SPAR Norway and its parent company NorgesGruppen ASA are important facilitators of the distribution and sale of whale meat in Norway. Food products from the hunts of protected minke whales killed in Norwegian waters are being sold in a number of SPAR Norway outlets and other NorgesGruppen stores. Under an objection to the global moratorium […]
EIA has created a briefing to provide an overview of Peru’s Agency for Supervision of Forest Resources and Wildlife (OSINFOR), an autonomous government entity with sanctioning powers that has conducted thousands of field inspections of logging operations since 2009. OSINFOR’s contribution to increasing forest oversight and supply chain transparency offers a unique model with lessons […]
Learn More on HFCs: External Resources • An exhaustive report by Michael Kauffield for EIA, May 2012, on the availability and potential of low-GWP alternatives to HFCs across various applications and sectors; calls on POM prohibitions of HFCs as most effective means to drive the phase-out. • Here is a review of EIA’s European supermarket […]
EIA’s official 2014 Annual Report includes a complete financial report as well as the major accomplishments achieved by each of our three core campaigns. To mark its 25 years of success, this report also includes a look back at EIA’s history of lasting solutions to environmental crime around the world. To read the full 2014 […]