Reports

How reducing plastic production supports climate goals. Summary for Policymakers. Plastic pollution and climate change are increasingly recognised as interconnected global crises.

Building on the 40-year moratorium on commercial whaling to strengthen the conservation and protection of all cetaceans

UK supermarkets have made limited progress in reducing plastic packaging for fresh fruit and vegetables and transparency on loose produce sales has worsened since EIA’s last comparable dataset in 2021. While many grocery retailers have signed up to the UK Plastics Pact’s voluntary commitment to sell at least 30 per cent of uncut fresh produce […]

Fish maw fisheries, driven by rising global demand for swim bladders (maw), are an increasing source of bycatch of threatened cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), sharks, rays, sirenians (dugongs and manatees) and marine turtles, many of which are CMS-listed. These fisheries also threaten targeted fish species. Few maw fisheries are managed for either target species […]

STILL a critical threat to our future As an organisation that has spent more than four decades investigating and combating environmental crime and abuse across all three pillars of the triple planetary crisis — climate, biodiversity and pollution — the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is uniquely positioned to speak to both the scale of the […]

Why upstream action and coalition pathways are essential to deliver results Global plastic pollution continues to rise despite decades of policy focus on downstream waste management. Negotiations towards an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution (ILBI) under UNEA Resolution 5/14 have progressed in form but remain politically stalled on several foundational questions. Central […]