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The EIA has sent a letter to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, on behalf of 35 NGOs, expressing deep concerns about the EU’s stance on methane mitigation and the global warming crisis following COP29 and the US Presidential election. We urge her to take a leadership role on this critical issue.

In another major win for Myanmar’s forests, a penalty order of €150,000 has been issued against a Dutch firm for using illicit Myanmar teak on Jeff Bezos’ superyacht Koru. Just days earlier, a UK court fined Sunseeker International more than £350,000 for a similar offence.

The UN CoP29 climate summit concluded in Baku on 24 November with a climate finance deal that has been branded a betrayal. It is hardly surprising that the latest CoP, hosted by a major fossil fuel-producing country for the third year in a row, has ended in disappointment

In a landmark case in the UK courts, a luxury yacht firm first exposed by EIA has been handed stiff penalties for using ‘blood’ teak imported from Myanmar on some of the vessels it builds. Sunseeker International Ltd received fines and costs totalling £358,759.64 for 11 specific imports.

For the third year in a row, EIA has looked into the systems being used to keep participants cool annual UN Climate Change Conference (CoP29). Once again we can reveal that they are heavily reliant on potent climate-wrecking refrigerant gases.

The global plastic waste trade is an environmental disaster hiding in plain sight, EIA’s latest report concludes. The plastic waste trade fuels organised crime, drives working conditions that amount to human rights violations and is devastating to the environment and human health.

Following the launch of a deeply concerning new assessment on the alarming increase in emissions from the ‘forgotten greenhouse gas’ - what should be done to avert a global catastrophe? Nitrous oxide (N₂O) – better known as laughing gas – is no laughing matter for our climate, our ozone layer or our health.

The Government of China has made a commitment to supporting the development of substitutes for endangered wildlife used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The announcement by the National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA) is an encouraging step.

The world’s pressing climate targets are being jeopardised by huge rogue emissions of a potent greenhouse gas. HFC-23 emissions reached a record high of 17,300 tonnes in 2019, equivalent to more than a quarter of a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.