The international community heads towards a landmark climate change agreement in Paris, also it's the year Parties to the Montreal Protocol launch formal negotiations on one of the largest, fastest and most cost-effective global mitigation measures to address climate change - the phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
A briefing prepared by EIA for the meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, December 2014. Due to ongoing demand, Siamese rosewood forests continue to be blighted by illegal logging and the region by illegal trade
A report on how the clear-cutting of forests to make way for oil palm plantations is driving illegal logging in Indonesia. Permitting Crime reveals how a widespread culture of corruption and poor law enforcement is generating a flood of illicit timber as plantations surge into frontier forests
A briefing prepared for the 26th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Paris November 2014. Parties to the Montreal Protocol stand poised to begin negotiations on the most immediate, cost-effective and tangible global measure to address climate change ever contemplated, the phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons
Far from going away, the threat of black market ODS looms greater than ever and this briefing brings together analysis of trade and emissions data, recent reported seizures and a look at the global refrigerant and feedstock market to highlight some key areas of concern, needing to be addressed by the Montreal Protocol
