EIA campaigners will be at 22nd International Anti-Corruption Conference to call for stronger action against environmental crime and the corruption enabling it. The summit is due to take place in Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic, from 1-4 December 2026, For more than four decades, EIA investigations across climate, forests, oceans and wildlife have shown that […]
Six years after EIA’s 2020 report Out of Africa detailed how endemic corruption, weak or absent rule of law, low levels of development and hotspots of armed conflict had left West and Central Africa wide open to exploitation by well-organised transnational criminal gangs, our new report Beyond Africa takes a close look at the shifting […]
Ten years ago, following a seven-year EIA campaign, I witnessed governments in Kigali, Rwanda deliver a landmark agreement to tackle climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Last week, I returned to the same city for the 38th Meeting of the Parties (MOP38) to the Montreal Protocol, hoping to see that same spirit of ambition and cooperation. The meeting […]
EIA campaigners had a busy week at the 81st meeting of the CITES Standing Committee (SC81) in Geneva, Switzerland. On the ground and in the room last week (2-6 November), they actively engaged on a variety of issues concerning Asian big cats, elephants, rhinos and vaquita porpoises, among other key CITES implementation and illegal wildlife […]
The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which commits countries to globally phase down super pollutant hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), is widely acknowledged as one of the most ambitious climate agreements made to date. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Kigali Amendment, EIA commissioned filmmaker Leo Plunkett to produce a short documentary exploring the build-up to the Kigali Amendment, its role in sustainable cooling in an ever-warming world and future issues that the Protocol has yet to address.
One month ago (5 October), EIA released the briefing Illegally Operated, Officially Certified analysing Indonesian Government Decree No.36 of 2025 and featuring a list of more than 400 palm oil company areas occupying in excess of 1.1 million hectares of the country’s Forest Area without the required forest release. Our analysis found more than 20 […]