CoP28: EIA welcomes UK Gov’t commitment to tackling deforestation – with some concerns
The UK Government is to seek to tackle deforestation by addressing problems in the country’s international supply chains
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The UK Government is to seek to tackle deforestation by addressing problems in the country’s international supply chains
Palm oil is cheap, versatile and used widely in countess thousands of products and in biofuels, but its production has been linked to human rights abuses, illegal logging and deforestation, causing considerable harm to indigenous peoples and the habitats of endangered orangutans
The influence of the global petrochemicals industry and plastic-producing countries has frustrated meaningful progress towards agreeing a Global Plastics Treaty
The three big institutions of the EU have today (17 November) agreed to a timetable to end polluting exports of plastic waste to some countries
The terrible scale of our planet’s plastic pollution crisis has been making headlines in recent years, as have a number of apparent technological solutions to the problem – but can we really rely on physical ocean clean-ups to sort out the mess for us?
EIA’s Ocean campaigners were among the first to spot the rising crisis of plastic pollution and we’re proud to have helped lead the call for a new Global Plastics Treaty to tackle it. This month we’ll be in Nairobi to attend the third session of the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee working out the detail.