Twice a year, EIA Ocean campaigners join the Clean Shipping Coalition delegation at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) on the River Thames, once for the Sub-Committee on Pollution, Prevention and Response (PPR) and once for the Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC). This week, we join the 84th meeting of the MEPC in London. Inside the […]
Forests are often talked about as places of nature and wildlife, but they are also deeply connected to our economies and everyday lives. This year’s International Day of Forests (21 March) highlights the link between forests and the economy and the reality is simple – when forests are healthy, economies are more stable; when forests […]
As the latest rupture in an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape, military strikes on Iran by the USA and Israel will likely increase pressure on the world’s ability to feed itself – and it begins with synthetic fertilisers. It is barely more than century since the Haber-Bosch process was developed and the industrial production of ammonia […]
We are grateful for the additional contributions to this blog from Solomon Njoroge In December, I travelled to Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite outside the capital Nairobi with colleagues from EIA. We were there with a specific purpose – to understand what synthetic textile exports look like at the end of their journey. We did not […]
Has the world woken up to the threat of environmental crime? The outcome of several days of dialogue in Vienna this week raises more questions than answers. More than 100 states, represented by hundreds of delegates, met at the United Nations to negotiate the global response to environmental crime as part of a Second Meeting […]
Would you feel comfortable feeding your family with food wrapped in plastic made from uncontrolled waste streams? Do we really want children’s toys or baby bottles made from recycled plastic whose chemical history cannot be reliably traced and so might contain ‘forever chemicals’ and other hazardous additives? These are not abstract questions. In the coming […]