Environmental crime is often regarded as a series of disparate issues, from wildlife trafficking and illegal logging to waste dumping and illegal fishing. But according to EIA’s latest major report, Crimes that Affect the Environment – STILL a Critical Threat to Our Future, these crimes are increasingly connected, driven by organised criminal networks and fuelling […]
The leading UK supermarkets have made limited progress in reducing plastic packaging for fresh fruit and vegetables, despite signing up to the UK Plastics Pact’s voluntary commitment to sell at least 30 per cent of uncut fresh produce loose by 2025. But the new EIA report UK Supermarket Sale of Loose Unpackaged Produce – Trends, […]
UK supermarkets have made limited progress in reducing plastic packaging for fresh fruit and vegetables, despite much of it being unnecessary and a significant proportion being made from hard-to-recycle soft plastic. And a new EIA report out today, UK Supermarket Sale of Loose Unpackaged Produce – Trends, barriers and opportunities, reveals that transparency around loose […]
EIA wholeheartedly welcomes the announcement from the Government of Iceland that it intends to comprehensively revise its current Whaling Act – which could include a permanent ban on whaling. The International Whaling Commission’s global commercial whaling moratorium has been in place for four decades this year and it remains one of the most effective international […]
In our landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, EIA was the first to analyse the combined impact of multiple environmental crime types and the coordinated global response they demanded. Some 18 years later, that call for urgent action has gone substantially unheeded. In our new report Crimes that Affect the […]
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 […]