Today we’re pleased to share this guest blog by young EIA supporter and A-level student Ethan Grewal, a keen follower of the work of our Forests Programme who was moved to write following his experiences on a recent trip to Indonesia … I recently had the rare opportunity to explore Indonesia, one of […]
On 16 September 1987, the world came together in Montreal to protect the planet and its inhabitants from ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The agreement, the Montreal Protocol, went on to become the world’s most successful environmental treaty ever and is now marked each year by the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, and […]
The UN Environment Programme has confirmed a deeply concerning truth for the entire planet in its new Limiting Overshoot report – going beyond the 1.5°C temperature goal established by the Paris Agreement is now “unavoidable”. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, driven by our burning of fossil fuels and emissions of super pollutant […]
Climate change is too often viewed as something remote, with its impacts felt in other places, by other people less fortunate. The following quote popularised on social media has never felt more applicable – “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where […]
Working on fisheries bycatch can be a pretty gruesome task. Bycatch is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins and porpoises (collectively known as cetaceans) as well as countless other protected species every year – and entanglement in fishing gear is deeply traumatic for every individual experiencing it. Once an animal […]
When most people think about plastic pollution, they think about littered beaches, entangled wildlife and overflowing landfills in faraway places. The reality is that the plastics crisis doesn’t begin (or end) with these visible impacts, it starts much earlier with the extraction of fossil fuels and the production of the plastics themselves, where toxic emissions […]