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The forgotten elephants
We've summarised the illegal trade threats that Asian elephants in the Greater Mekong Subregion have faced in recent years.
This literature review was a first step in a multiyear project to understand illegal trade threats facing Asian elephants in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, and will inform conservation and policy measures.
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'What on Earth?'
Will we get a viable Global Plastics Treaty or will compromise water it down?
The fifth round of talks in pursuit of a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty kicks off in Busan, South Korea shortly — but will we emerge with an agreement capable of tackling the world’s plastic crisis or will vested interests compromise the final vision?
In this podcast episode, EIA Ocean Campaign Leader Christina Dixon and Ocean Campaigner Jacob Kean-Hammerson join Senior Press & Communications Officer Paul Newman for an update on the progress so far and a look ahead to the challenges remaining for negotiators in Busan.
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Latest investigation: Dirty Deals - Part Two
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Climate
Climate-wrecking refrigerants are everywhere at CoP29
For the third year in a row, EIA has looked into the systems being used to keep participants cool annual UN Climate Change Conference (CoP29). Once again we can reveal that they are heavily reliant on potent climate-wrecking refrigerant gases.
Plastics
The world’s plastics waste trade is a cover for criminal exploitation
The global plastic waste trade is an environmental disaster hiding in plain sight, EIA’s latest report concludes. The plastic waste trade fuels organised crime, drives working conditions that amount to human rights violations and is devastating to the environment and human health.
Climate
N₂O: Why nitrous oxide is no laughing matter for climate change
Following the launch of a deeply concerning new assessment on the alarming increase in emissions from the ‘forgotten greenhouse gas’ - what should be done to avert a global catastrophe? Nitrous oxide (N₂O) – better known as laughing gas – is no laughing matter for our climate, our ozone layer or our health.
Wildlife
An end to China’s use of threatened wildlife in traditional medicines?
The Government of China has made a commitment to supporting the development of substitutes for endangered wildlife used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The announcement by the National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA) is an encouraging step.
Climate
Critical climate targets jeopardised by rogue HFC-23 emissions
The world’s pressing climate targets are being jeopardised by huge rogue emissions of a potent greenhouse gas. HFC-23 emissions reached a record high of 17,300 tonnes in 2019, equivalent to more than a quarter of a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Ocean
Exposed — the plastics waste trade scams that fuel crime and injustice around the world
Uncovering shocking evidence of how bad actors exploit regulatory weaknesses, legal loopholes and outdated practices in the global plastic waste trade
Forests
Hands off the EU Deforestation Regulation!
EIA has joined with more than 225 civil society organisations from at least 42 countries to call on the European Parliament and national EU governments to reject the European Commission’s bid to stall a major forests protection law.
Methane
EIA calls on European Commission to take action on methane emissions
Methane, the second most important greenhouse gas (GHG), is responsible for a third of the global warming that has taken place so far. Over a 20 year period, it is 80+ times more effective at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2).
Pangolins
Norges Bank divested from a major TCM company
Norges Bank has divested from a major traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) company in the wake of EIA’s major exposé Investing in Extinction, which found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 products.
Appeal: Tackling the trans-Himalayan trade in tiger skins, bones, teeth and claws
Help us put a stop to the organised criminal gangs who take advantage of porous borders to smuggle these items, decimating tiger populations and driving the species towards extinction.
