Certification by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) cannot provide assurance that palm oil has been produced in full compliance with Indonesian law. For more than 20 years, the RSPO – the world’s best-known certification scheme for palm oil, intended to assure consumers that palm oil production does not cause environmental or social harms […]
Earlier this year, a UK Government assessment put into stark terms something environmental organisations have warned about for years – the destruction of nature is no longer simply an environmental issue but also poses a threat to national security. The assessment examined how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect Britain’s […]
Today we’re pleased to share this guest blog by young EIA supporter and A-level student Ethan Grewal, a keen follower of the work of our Forests Programme who was moved to write following his experiences on a recent trip to Indonesia … I recently had the rare opportunity to explore Indonesia, one of […]
On 16 September 1987, the world came together in Montreal to protect the planet and its inhabitants from ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The agreement, the Montreal Protocol, went on to become the world’s most successful environmental treaty ever and is now marked each year by the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, and […]
The UN Environment Programme has confirmed a deeply concerning truth for the entire planet in its new Limiting Overshoot report – going beyond the 1.5°C temperature goal established by the Paris Agreement is now “unavoidable”. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, driven by our burning of fossil fuels and emissions of super pollutant […]
Climate change is too often viewed as something remote, with its impacts felt in other places, by other people less fortunate. The following quote popularised on social media has never felt more applicable – “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where […]