The UK Government has promised global climate leadership, yet new evidence shows that programmes designed to protect forests, oceans and climate stability in developing countries are being quietly cut, scaled back or drip-fed year-by-year. At least £11.6 billion was pledged for international climate finance (ICF) between 2021-26. According to reporting this week in the Guardian, […]
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. […]
With the festive season almost upon us, households across the UK are preparing for the usual celebrations, gifts and indulgence. But behind the sparkles lies a growing problem – our reliance on plastics, especially packaging, which surges over the festive period by 30 per cent and which contributes to environmental and human health impacts both […]
A major pollution incident has occurred along the UK’s East Sussex coast, where millions of plastic biobeads have washed up on the shoreline at Camber Sands and neighbouring beaches following a failure at Southern Water’s Eastbourne wastewater treatment works. The company has admitted the spill was caused by a screening‐filter failure during heavy rainfall, which […]
New landmark initiatives aimed at accelerating global action to cut methane and other climate-harming gases have been launched from the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP30) in Brazil. EIA’s Climate campaigners welcome the announcements, made yesterday at the Methane and Other Non-CO₂ Greenhouse Gases Summit. EIA Climate Campaigner Kim O’Dowd said: “The announcements are […]
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 […]