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LONDON: 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 report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), UK Supermarket Sale of Loose Unpackaged Produce – Trends, barriers and opportunities, […]

LONDON: In its landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, the London-based Environmental Agency (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 its new […]

LONDON: One year on from the collapse of formal negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty in Geneva, the new Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Julio Cordono, has released an ‘Aid to Negotiations’ to push the process forward – but campaigners from the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) fear it could instead bend any resulting […]

LONDON: Negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty are stuck in limbo, but new research by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) indicates alternative ways forward to both lower plastics production and circumvent the petrostates and vested interests holding the process hostage. After several rounds of talks beginning in 2022, progress by the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating […]

LONDON: To mark this year’s 40th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organisations has joined forces to launch a global petition to end commercial whaling. Despite the global ban, the governments of three countries – Iceland, Japan and Norway – have sanctioned the […]

LONDON: Despite the critically endangered vaquita porpoise still teetering on the brink of extinction, the Government of Mexico is considering a proposal to reduce its protected habitat by more than 85 per cent. Scientists estimate that as few as 10 vaquita may remain in Mexico’s Gulf of California, the only place in the world they […]