Under the Vienna Convention, the Montreal Protocol has been tasked with responsibility for controlling ozone-depleting substances (ODS) and dealing with any “adverse effects” arising from their elimination. Without question, the negative impact and contribution to global warming arising from using HFCs as alternatives to ODS qualifies as an “adverse effect ” that is a direct […]
How Fraud and Corruption in Peru’s Concession System are Destroying the Future of its Forests To download this report click here. In this report, EIA documents for the first time the systematic export and import of illegal wood from Peru to the United States. In many ways, this report not a new story: the system’s […]
En este informe EIA logra documentar por primera vez la exportación e importación sistemática de madera ilegal de Perú a EEUU. Aquí no se cuenta una historia nueva: la corrupción en el sistema forestal y cómo funciona es algo que todos en el sector conocen. El aporte de EIA está en haber identificado y recolectado […]
Although Yahoo! has banned cetacean and other endangered wildlife products from all its websites except for Japan, there is no evidence it has made any significant effort to persuade its Japanese subsidiary to end these sales, which are derived from endangered and internationally protected species. To download the report, click here.
In December 2011, a search for ‘whale’ on www.amazon.co.jp yielded 147 whale products for sale. Many of these products originate from great whales, namely fin, sei, minke and Bryde’s whale, which are all protected species under the moratorium on commercial whaling established by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. These whale species are also […]
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 […]