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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 […]

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The suffering of whales, dolphins and marine mammals bycaught in fishing nets

Working on fisheries bycatch can be a pretty gruesome task. Bycatch is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins and porpoises (collectively known as cetaceans) as well as countless other protected species every year – and entanglement in fishing gear is deeply traumatic for every individual experiencing it. Once an animal […]

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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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From Teesside to the Global Plastics Treaty – why plastic production cannot be forgotten

When most people think about plastic pollution, they think about littered beaches, entangled wildlife and overflowing landfills in faraway places. The reality is that the plastics crisis doesn’t begin (or end) with these visible impacts, it starts much earlier with the extraction of fossil fuels and the production of the plastics themselves, where toxic emissions […]

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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 […]