Negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty are stuck in limbo, but new EIA research indicates that there are alternative ways forward to both lower plastics production and get around the petrostates and vested interests holding the process hostage. After several rounds of talks beginning in 2022, progress by the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) stalled […]
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 […]
As part of the International Whaling Commission’s Bycatch Mitigation Initiative (BMI), five members of the IWCs Bycatch Expert Panel (of whom I am one) contributed to a 10-day bycatch risk assessment workshop in the Republic of Congo. The Consortium for the Conservation of Atlantic Humpback Dolphins (CCAHD) helped to bring together all the relevant partners […]
The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (CoP30) has now concluded in Brazil. Our Climate campaigners were keeping watch on proceedings and welcome the progress under the Just Transition Work Programme, methane initiatives and the new focus on fertilisers, although it appears progress stalled on fossil fuels. Here’s an overview of the key activities […]
When it comes to international climate summits, there are few more contentious issues than that of money – who should pay for climate action and how should they do it? As the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP30) unfolds in Brazil, our attention turns once again to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, the mechanism intended […]
New landmark initiatives aimed at accelerating global action to cut methane and other climate-harming gases have been launched from the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP30) in Brazil. EIA’s Climate campaigners welcome the announcements, made yesterday at the Methane and Other Non-CO₂ Greenhouse Gases Summit. EIA Climate Campaigner Kim O’Dowd said: “The announcements are […]