We’re pleased to share this guest blog by our Turkish plastics pollution partner Umut Özşimşek, Editor of the platform Çukuravo. On 21 September last year, a massive fire broke out at the Çetin Plastik facility in Küçükdikili, Adana, Türkiye – one of the most severe environmental disasters the city has faced in recent years. […]
The UK produces the world’s second highest amount of plastic waste per person, with an estimated 1.7 billion items of plastic discarded weekly – averaging almost 90 billion items each year. More than half of this plastic waste is incinerated, a volume which rose from 46 per cent in 2022 to 58 per cent in […]
With Global Tiger Day (29 July) upon us, I want to take a moment to pay tribute to the late Valmik Thapar, an immense figure in the battle to save the wild tiger. Valmik sadly passed away in Delhi on the 31 May this year after a courageous battle with cancer. He was surrounded by […]
EIA is pleased to welcome the new UK House of Lords report Nitrogen: Time to Reduce, Recycle, Reuse (published 24 July 2025). This timely and thorough examination by the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee brings long-overdue attention to the pervasive and multi-dimensional threat of nitrogen pollution and makes the case for a […]
EIA is adding its voice to civil society organisations across Europe to call on all EU institutions and member states to stand by their commitments and uphold the integrity of the landmark European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). The EUDR is essential for forests, resilient supply chains and global climate stability and we believe EU lawmakers […]
Almost four decades after the 1986 global moratorium on commercial whaling put an end to the mass slaughter of whales, opposition to commercial whaling around the world is stronger than ever. Yet as we mark World Whale Day 2025, Japan, Norway and Iceland – three of the world’s wealthiest nations that otherwise generally abide by […]