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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: As the UK recovers from its latest record-breaking heatwave, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today published UK Cooling Policy in a Warming World, an urgent call to action for the Government to adopt a national cooling action plan addressing both climate adaptation and mitigation. With the UK warming faster than the global average, […]

LONDON: Vietnam has made significant progress in recent years to keep its supply chains free from illicit timber, allowing it to maintain access to lucrative export markets – but new investigations show those efforts are in danger of being undermined by high-risk timber entering from neighbouring countries. In a new report released today, Manufactured Legality […]

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 […]