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 […]
LONDON: As the UK recovers from its latest record-breaking heatwave, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today published UK Cooling Policy in a Warming World, an urgent call to action for the Government to adopt a national cooling action plan addressing both climate adaptation and mitigation. With the UK warming faster than the global average, […]
LONDON: International supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize appears to be lagging behind when it comes to phasing out climate-harming refrigeration – even though CEO Frans Muller was until just days ago the co-chair of the influential Consumer Goods Forum, which is committed to speeding up the transition to natural refrigerants. Ahold Delhaize, which operates more than […]
LONDON: The world’s pressing climate targets are being jeopardised by huge rogue emissions of a potent greenhouse gas. HFC-23 emissions reached a record high of 17,300 tonnes in 2019, equivalent to more than a quarter of a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. The climate super-pollutant is produced and emitted primarily as an unwanted byproduct of […]
A new paper published this week outlines significant greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities under the global ozone treaty – the Montreal Protocol
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, new research shows