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EIA Briefing to the 96th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund

LONDON: Tens of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are dying every year in European waters as a result of being bycaught in fishing gear – and some populations are coming perilously close to extinction. A new report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals that the degree of bycatch […]

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 […]

On 26 February, the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) published the “Seventh Carbon Budget – Advice for the UK government”, an almost 400 page document outlining recommended legally binding milestones to set the UK’s pathway to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

China’s emissions of key super-polluting hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants now represent more than 20 per cent of the global total. In a newly published study, Xiaoyi Hu and colleagues reported on new observations of three of the main HFCs in use today – HFC-125, HFC-134a and HFC-143a – showing that emissions had increased to 206.4 million […]

EIA Briefing to the 95th Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund.