Athletes’ concerns could undermine Paris 2024’s climate-friendly ambitions for the Olympics
According to the organisers, this summer’s Olympics, due to kick off in Paris later this month, will be the “greenest ever games”.
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According to the organisers, this summer’s Olympics, due to kick off in Paris later this month, will be the “greenest ever games”.
In this episode of the podcast, EIA’s Senior Press and Communications Officer Paul Newman talks with EIA US Executive Director Alexander von Bismarck about the changes he’s seen in the organisation and the challenges it faces in the future
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, EIA’s latest research shows
More than two years ago, EIA unveiled our Environmental Crime Tracker, an open access online tool to help analyse and better understand wildlife and forest crime around the world. Recently, we expanded its capabilities even further with a new dashboard to help assess the prosecutions of environmental crimes
“While the final text has dropped explicit reference to a fossil fuel phase-out, which was included in previous text versions, the message remains that a fossil fuel phase-out is inevitable.”
Some 97,000 people are in Dubai for the UN CoP28 climate summit – and EIA can reveal they are being kept cool with unsustainable, energy-inefficient cooling units containing potent climate-polluting refrigerant gases