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Organised crime allegedly supplies illegal refrigerants to big Italian supply chains

Illegal climate-damaging refrigerant gases worth hundreds of millions of euros a year in lost profits to legitimate suppliers are entering Italy via organised criminal networks, penetrating major supply chains including manufacturing, supermarkets and the state railway. In our new report Fakes, Fraud and F-gases, we reveal the findings of our Climate team’s latest investigations into […]

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Organised crime allegedly supplies illegal refrigerants to major Italian supermarkets and state railway

LONDON: Illegal climate-damaging refrigerant gases worth hundreds of millions of euros a year in lost profits to legitimate suppliers are entering Italy via organised criminal networks, penetrating major supply chains including manufacturing, supermarkets and the state railway. In the new report Fakes, Fraud and F-gases, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals the findings of […]

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Whales and dolphins under pressure in European waters as tens of thousands die each year in fishing nets

LONDON: Tens of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are dying every year in European waters as a result of being bycaught in fishing gear – and some populations are coming perilously close to extinction. A new report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals that the degree of bycatch […]

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Tens of thousands of whales and dolphins die in European waters each year in fishing nets

Tens of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are dying every year in European waters as a result of being bycaught in fishing gear – and some populations are coming perilously close to extinction. A new EIA report released today (6 May) reveals that the degree of bycatch is so serious […]

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Upholding laws to prevent whales and dolphins from becoming entangled in fishing gear

Hundreds of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are bycaught in fishing gear every year and tens of thousands die in European waters. This has been happening for decades. Governments have been slow to act, to understand bycatch impacts and, more critically, to prevent bycatch from happening despite stringent laws in […]