EIA US welcomes Cameroon’s decision to expand the list of timber species prohibited to be exported as raw logs. As EIA’s investigations have documented over the years, the export of logs has benefitted forest offenders to the detriment of ecosystems, communities, and the national economy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule rolling back requirements under the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act of 2020 to reduce U.S. consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – potent greenhouse gases hundreds to thousands of times more harmful to the climate than carbon dioxide. Despite a […]
Un collectif d'organisations de la société civile internationales et nationales s'unissent pour condamner l'arrestation et la détention arbitraire de 11 leaders communautaires de la province du Lualaba en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Ces leaders ont été arrêtés pour avoir protesté contre les répercussions sur leur vie, leurs moyens de subsistance et leur santé des activités de Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM), l’une des plus grandes sociétés minières de cuivre et de cobalt au monde et la filiale du Groupe CMOC, le plus grand producteur mondial de cobalt.
A collective of international and national civil society organizations join their voices to condemn the arbitrary arrest and detention of 11 community leaders from Lualaba province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These leaders were arrested for protesting the impacts on their lives, livelihoods, and health from the operations of Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM), one of the largest copper-cobalt mining companies in the world and subsidiary of the CMOC Group, the world's largest cobalt producer.
Leather imports represent one of the strongest links between the European market and deforestation, labor abuses and Indigenous rights violations driven by cattle ranching in the Amazon. Despite this, the European Commission is proposing to grant leather an arbitrary exemption, under heavy pressure from the industry lobby
EIA est profondément préoccupée par les récentes allégations de menaces proférées à l’encontre d’employés de la Société d’Exploitation Forestière Yuan Dong Congo (SEFYD), à la suite de la diffusion d’un documentaire de TV5Monde sur des exportations présumées illégales de grumes.