EIA and six other climate campaigning organisations have issued a joint rebuttal to attempts to delay and water down a vital new regulation addressing EU methane emissions. The EU Methane Regulation, adopted in May last year, is a groundbreaking legal framework that sets out a global benchmark for methane emissions monitoring and mitigation for both […]
Hundreds of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are bycaught in fishing gear every year and tens of thousands die in European waters. This has been happening for decades. Governments have been slow to act, to understand bycatch impacts and, more critically, to prevent bycatch from happening despite stringent laws in […]
The recent court ruling against Greenpeace, ordering it to pay more than $660 million in damages for its role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, highlights the ongoing challenges faced by environmental organisations. This verdict underscores the need for collective action and the protection of environmental defenders worldwide. At the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA UK), […]
Saturday (22 March) is the 40-year anniversary of the signing of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, an achievement which has stood for four decades as an inspiration for multilateral environmental action. The Vienna Convention was established in response to scientific evidence that man-made chemicals, particularly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), were causing significant […]
Today, EIA and a group of European NGOs have written to the European Commission to urge it to support the roll-out of best-in-class natural refrigerant heat pumps. The initiative would be paid for from funding allocated to support those most at risk from the costs associated with the upcoming inclusion of fossil fuels for heating […]
With approximately just 5,500 wild tigers left in the world, this iconic species remains under threat from a variety of factors, particular illegal wildlife trade. The illegal trade in tigers and their parts and derivatives continues to be fuelled by facilities holding tigers in captivity, especially in China. One survey estimated more than 6,000 individual […]