Joint NGO statement welcoming the implementation of the UK Ivory Act, in effect from today!
Today (6 June) sees the UK Ivory Act come into force, effectively outlawing all legal ivory trade apart from a few narrow exemptions
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EIA podcast – Ban it and keep it banned … the high cost to elephants of legal ivory trade
Zimbabwe has hosted what it called an ‘Elephant Summit’ for itself and several other African nations with the aim of restarting the legal international trade in ivory and selling off their stockpiled elephant tusks
Why is UK supermarket giant ASDA opting for climate-damaging air-conditioning systems?
ASDA has recently installed rooftop cooling units using a potent climate-harming refrigerant
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Fresh bid to revive global ivory trade with a ‘one-off’ sale is likely to drive elephant poaching surge
A new attempt by several Southern African nations to reopen the global ivory trade via another ‘one-off’ sale of stockpiled tusks could mean disaster for threatened elephants
Adoption of new air-conditioning safety standard a milestone for climate-friendly cooling
The prospect of clean and sustainable cooling has made a major advance with approval of an international standard on safety requirements for electrical heat pumps, air-conditioners and dehumidifiers intended for household use
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Take a deep dive into the illegal trade in climate-harming gases with our Global Crime Tracker
Refrigerant gases have now been added to EIA’s first-of-its-kind Global Environmental Crime Tracker
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