As the UK recovers from its latest record-breaking heatwave, our Climate team today published UK Cooling Policy in a Warming World, an urgent call to action for the UK Government to adopt a national cooling action plan addressing both climate adaptation and mitigation. With the UK warming faster than the global average, heatwaves are becoming […]
Enforcement action in Europe to prevent the export of more than 4,000 tonnes of textile waste underpins EIA’s long-standing warnings that this global trade often results in waste being dumped in other countries. The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) uncovered and prevented the illegal shipment from Italy to Türkiye, revealing once more the scale of misdeclared […]
Vietnam has made progress in recent years to rid its supply chains of illicit timber, allowing it to maintain access to lucrative export markets – but new EIA investigations show its efforts are in danger of being undermined by high-risk timber from neighbouring countries. In a new report released today, Manufactured Legality – Timber supply […]
Negotiators are today (30 June) preparing to meet in Nairobi for the next round of closed-door Heads of Delegation (HoDs) meetings that will shape the outcome of the Global Plastics Treaty. These meetings matter! While informal in name, they increasingly determine what will and won’t make it into the final agreement. After the turbulence of […]
The Attorney General’s Office in Indonesia has named 11 individuals and 12 associated companies as suspects in fraudulent exports of crude palm oil (CPO). Investigators allege that between 2022-24, shipments of CPO were deliberately mis-declared as palm oil mill effluent (POME) – the liquid waste from palm oil mills – or other derivatives, obscuring their […]
Cooling technologies are vital for a functioning society – refrigeration for food and medicine, air-conditioning to adapt to a warming planet and heat pumps for decarbonised heating. But the refrigerants inside these technologies can exacerbate climate change, some of them hundreds or thousands times worse than carbon dioxide over a short time frame. Fortunately, there […]