Blog Posts
- US Congress presses Secretary Kerry to make super greenhouse gases (HFCs) a priority in India
US Congress presses Secretary Kerry to make super greenhouse gases (HFCs) a priority in India
As the nations of the world prepare to meet next week at the open ended working group of the Montreal Protocol in Bangkok, Thailand, Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to travel to India for the fourth U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue. Sec. Kerry should seize the overlap...
- Landmark Revision of Japanese Fluorocarbon Regulations: Make It Count
Landmark Revision of Japanese Fluorocarbon Regulations: Make It Count
On April 19, 2013, the Japanese Cabinet approved the revision of its fluorocarbon regulations that will fundamentally change the way high global warming fluorocarbons are produced, used and disposed in Japan...
- Let’s Get this Done; Decision at Warsaw on HFCs Needed to Bridge Gigatonne Gap
Let’s Get this Done; Decision at Warsaw on HFCs Needed to Bridge Gigatonne Gap
Parties met last week in Bonn, Germany to begin discussing the next legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. This is agreement is potentially the most significant global treaty that will ever be negotiated...
- Technology Now: Low-GWP technologies are bursting onto the Chinese market
Technology Now: Low-GWP technologies are bursting onto the Chinese market
Refrigeration 2013 kicked off two weeks ago, showcasing new and emerging products in refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pumps. One of the focuses of this exposition was on new lower global warming potential (GWP) technologies...
- China Agrees to Massive Climate Mitigation
China Agrees to Massive Climate Mitigation
China has agreed to accept up to US$385 million from the Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund (MLF) for the elimination of its industrial production of ozone depleting substances known as HCFC (hyrdochlorofluorocarbons) and associated by-product HFC-23 in accordance with best practices to minimize associated climate impacts...
- Holding Internet Giants Accountable for Appalling Sale of Whale and Ivory Products
Holding Internet Giants Accountable for Appalling Sale of Whale and Ivory Products
EIA and Humane Society International researchers were shocked to discover ads promoting the sale of elephant ivory and whale products on internet giant Google and Amazon.com websites. Both Google, the world’s largest...
- Reflecting on CITES CoP16: Elephants and Rhinos
Reflecting on CITES CoP16: Elephants and Rhinos
Poaching and trafficking of iconic species such as elephants and rhinos are recognized to be at crisis levels, devastating populations worldwide. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is an international...
- Call for Trade Sanctions to Halt Vietnam’s Vast Illegal Rhino Horn Trade
Call for Trade Sanctions to Halt Vietnam’s Vast Illegal Rhino Horn Trade
Environmentalists are today calling for trade sanctions against Vietnam for its failure to take action against its massive illegal trade in rhino horn. The 177 nations currently Party to the...
- History repeating: The illegal trade in rhino horn
History repeating: The illegal trade in rhino horn
Rhino populations are being hammered by poachers, steeping Africa in blood and pushing the species ever-closer to extinction to satisfy the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam and other countries – a demand largely based on the myth...
- Lacey Act has teeth: US gets serious about illegal logging
Lacey Act has teeth: US gets serious about illegal logging
Gibson Guitars has finally faced the music. After nearly a year of crying foul, running to the Tea Party for political backing, seeking audience with every possible media outlet and hiring a DC lobbying firm to change the law under which it was being investigated...
- Musicians and environmentalists unite in opposition to music industry’s lobbying offensive
Musicians and environmentalists unite in opposition to music industry’s lobbying offensive
As tens of thousands of people gather for the opening of the NAMM Show, the National Association of Music Merchants’ biggest annual event, musicians and environmental groups called...