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Failure of political will makes crimes affecting the environment a worsening threat

In our landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, EIA was the first to analyse the combined impact of multiple environmental crime types and the coordinated global response they demanded. Some 18 years later, that call for urgent action has gone substantially unheeded. In our new report Crimes that Affect the […]

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Failure of political will key to why crimes that affect the environment still pose a major and worsening threat to the planet

LONDON: In its landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, the London-based Environmental Agency (EIA) was the first to analyse the combined impact of multiple environmental crime types and the coordinated global response they demanded. Some 18 years later, that call for urgent action has gone substantially unheeded. In its new […]

Report

Crimes that Affect the Environment

STILL a critical threat to our future As an organisation that has spent more than four decades investigating and combating environmental crime and abuse across all three pillars of the triple planetary crisis — climate, biodiversity and pollution — the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is uniquely positioned to speak to both the scale of the […]

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New Global Plastics Treaty ‘Aid To Negotiations’ risks watering down ambition to irrelevance

LONDON: One year on from the collapse of formal negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty in Geneva, the new Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Julio Cordono, has released an ‘Aid to Negotiations’ to push the process forward – but campaigners from the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) fear it could instead bend any resulting […]

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Harmful plastic waste: From British bins to Türkiye’s farms and back onto UK plates

A new two-part investigation by The Guardian, found here in part one and part two, has exposed the hidden consequences of the UK’s plastic waste exports to Türkiye. The investigation was informed by EIA analysis and traced thousands of tonnes of UK plastic waste sent for recycling in Adana, Türkiye, revealing how exported plastic is […]