On behalf of EIA, co-founders Allan Thornton, Dave Currey and I are delighted to warmly congratulate the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) on its 75th anniversary. We are proud that AWI has been an important partner of EIA since it was founded in 1984. Indeed, without the strong support and encouragement of AWI Founder Christine Stevens […]
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 UK and devolved governments must do more to prevent the fisheries bycatch of dolphins, porpoises, seals, seabirds and protected fish such as salmon and sharks. That’s the message EIA delivered to Parliament with colleagues from conservation and welfare groups, led by Wildlife and Countryside Link. Together we produced the report Hidden in the Haul: […]
Twice a year, EIA Ocean campaigners join the Clean Shipping Coalition delegation at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on the River Thames, once for the Sub-Committee on Pollution, Prevention and Response (PPR) and once for the Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC). This week, we join the 84th meeting of the MEPC in London. Inside the […]
The UK Government has promised global climate leadership, yet new evidence shows that programmes designed to protect forests, oceans and climate stability in developing countries are being quietly cut, scaled back or drip-fed year-by-year. At least £11.6 billion was pledged for international climate finance (ICF) between 2021-26. According to reporting this week in the Guardian, […]
We are grateful for the additional contributions to this blog from Solomon Njoroge In December, I travelled to Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite outside the capital Nairobi with colleagues from EIA. We were there with a specific purpose – to understand what synthetic textile exports look like at the end of their journey. We did not […]