Today (25 June), EIA had the privilege of attending an invite-only event at London’s Churchill War Rooms, hosted by DEFRA’s Nature Security team during London Climate Action Week to understand about how tackling forest crimes through strong governance is essential to advancing nature security. The session, “Cascading Risks, Connected Systems: Why Nature Security Matters Now”, […]
The predicted rise in plastic pollution spilling into the environment constitutes a planetary emergency, EIA's latest report warns
We welcome the announcement from 105 countries at the UN CoP26 climate change summit pledging to combat deforestation by 2030 – recognising the importance of forests, biodiversity and the people who rely on them is a good first step
The first phase of the latest conference of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD CoP15) ended with a renewed sense of optimism as 195 countries signed onto the Kunming Declaration with 17 commitments, acknowledging the need to reverse the world’s catastrophic loss of biodiversity
China is for the first time due to host a major international biological diversity conference – and EIA is urging it to start tackling environmental crime and exploitation as a priority
The EU Birds and Habitats Directives protect wildlife species and habitats in the UK and Europe but are under review by the European Commission and at serious risk of being weakened by some big business trying to dilute the legislation and remove what they see as unnecessary barriers to business and economic growth