Press Releases
- Tokyo urged to resurrect ivory trade assessment
Tokyo urged to resurrect ivory trade assessment
Elephant advocates worldwide are urging the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, under Governor Yuriko Koike’s leadership, to complete Tokyo’s elephant ivory trade assessment
- Sea Change in Sight in the Fight Against Global Forest Crimes
Sea Change in Sight in the Fight Against Global Forest Crimes
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcomes significant measures announced today by the Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement-Compagnie Générale Maritime (CMA-CGM), the fourth largest shipping line in the world, including a total moratorium on the transport of wood from The Gambia, as well as the creation of a global blacklist of shippers involved in illegal trade of protected and endangered species.
- Climate-friendly Supermarket Scorecard
Climate-friendly Supermarket Scorecard
Today, EIA launched the Climate-friendly Supermarket Scorecard assessing the largest U.S. supermarkets on actions and commitments to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - potent greenhouse gases used in cooling.
- Exposed: The Gambia’s Blood Wood Trafficking
Exposed: The Gambia’s Blood Wood Trafficking
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)’s new report, Cashing-In On Chaos, conclusively establishes links between timber trafficking controlled by Senegalese armed rebels; the decade-long smuggling of an estimated 1.6 million trees from Senegal to The Gambia; and the illegal re-export of the disappearing rosewood trees to China, in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Some of EIA’s findings are featured in the BBC’s documentary The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia, released in March 2020.
- China Proposes Stronger Steps to Protect our Climate and Ozone
China Proposes Stronger Steps to Protect our Climate and Ozone
Today, China proposed a new national plan to tackle hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), potent greenhouse gases used primarily in cooling.
- EIA Response to New Nature Paper on Urgent Need to Recover and Destroy CFC Banks
EIA Response to New Nature Paper on Urgent Need to Recover and Destroy CFC Banks
Washington DC – A new paper published in Nature today warns that emissions from ‘banks’ of ozone-destroying CFCs, could potentially delay the Antarctic ozone hole recovery by about six years. The new paper, Quantifying contributions of chlorofluorocarbon banks to emissions and impacts on the ozone layer and climate, also estimates that future emissions from current CFC banks could lead to an additional 9 billion metric tonnes CO2e between 2020 and 2100.
- EPA Rescinds Requirements on Super-Pollutant HFCs, Reversing Basic Safeguards on Leaks
EPA Rescinds Requirements on Super-Pollutant HFCs, Reversing Basic Safeguards on Leaks
EPA Rescinds Requirements on Super-Pollutant HFCs, Reversing Basic Safeguards on Leaks
- EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government
EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government
EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government
- New Environmental Mystery: HFC-23 Super Pollutant Emissions Continue Despite Montreal Protocol Controls
New Environmental Mystery: HFC-23 Super Pollutant Emissions Continue Despite Montreal Protocol Controls
A new paper in Nature Communications finds that, based on atmospheric data, emissions of one of the most potent greenhouse gases on the planet, HFC-23 are higher than at any point in history. Meanwhile, emissions reported of the same substance are at the lowest in the past 17 years. The study estimates that an additional ~309 Tg CO2-equivalent emissions (greater than 300 million tons) were added to the atmosphere between 2015 and 2017.
- EIA Welcomes China's New Law to Ban Illegal Timber
EIA Welcomes China's New Law to Ban Illegal Timber
EIA Welcomes China's New Law to Ban Illegal Timber
- EIA Response to New Study Estimating Impact of Illegal CFC-11 on Ozone Hole Recovery
EIA Response to New Study Estimating Impact of Illegal CFC-11 on Ozone Hole Recovery
A new paper due to be published in Nature on Thursday December 19. EIA Climate Campaign Lead Avipsa Mahapatra responds to the new findings.
- ANNOUNCE A ZERO EXPORT QUOTA NOW
ANNOUNCE A ZERO EXPORT QUOTA NOW
Zambia has at is fingertips an unprecedented opportunity to solve the mukula crisis and stop further forest plunder; will they seize the moment?
- Mukula Cartel
Mukula Cartel
New Report Reveals How President Lungu, His Daughter, and Several Ministers Reportedly Facilitate the Pillaging of Zambia’s Forests
- “Rosewood Revealed” EIA Offers Transparency to Ghanaian Rosewood Trade
“Rosewood Revealed” EIA Offers Transparency to Ghanaian Rosewood Trade
“ROSEWOOD REVEALED” EIA Offers Transparency to Ghanaian Rosewood Trade
- EIA Supports Investigative Efforts into Ghana’s Illicit Rosewood Trade and Commits to Enhance Publicly Available Rosewood Data
EIA Supports Investigative Efforts into Ghana’s Illicit Rosewood Trade and Commits to Enhance Publicly Available Rosewood Data
EIA Supports Investigative Efforts into Ghana’s Illicit Rosewood Trade and Commits to Enhance Publicly Available Rosewood Data
- Decision by Yahoo! Japan to End Ivory Sales Celebrated by Elephant Advocates
Decision by Yahoo! Japan to End Ivory Sales Celebrated by Elephant Advocates
Decision by Yahoo! Japan to End Ivory Sales Celebrated by Elephant Advocates
- Global Wildlife Conference Provides Hope for Disappearing Trees and Stronger Controls Against Illegal Timber Trade
Global Wildlife Conference Provides Hope for Disappearing Trees and Stronger Controls Against Illegal Timber Trade
Global Wildlife Conference Provides Hope for Disappearing Trees and Stronger Controls Against Illegal Timber Trade
- High Hopes for Global Wildlife Treaty to Defeat African Tree Poaching
High Hopes for Global Wildlife Treaty to Defeat African Tree Poaching
High Hopes for Global Wildlife Treaty to Defeat African Tree Poaching
- “Cool It” Campaign: Groups Take Aim At Walmart’s Massive Refrigerant Leakage Problem
“Cool It” Campaign: Groups Take Aim At Walmart’s Massive Refrigerant Leakage Problem
“Cool It” Campaign: Groups Take Aim At Walmart’s Massive Refrigerant Leakage Problem
- BAN-boozled: New report exposes institutionalized timber trafficking in Ghana
BAN-boozled: New report exposes institutionalized timber trafficking in Ghana
BAN-boozled: New report exposes institutionalized timber trafficking in Ghana
- Histórica sentencia judicial a favor de la Amazonía y del Perú
Histórica sentencia judicial a favor de la Amazonía y del Perú
Empresa responsable de deforestación en Tamshiyacu, Cacao del Perú Norte, del Grupo Melka, sancionada con 15 millones de soles y prisión para funcionarios.
- US blocks Peruvian illegal timber exporter
US blocks Peruvian illegal timber exporter
US blocks Peruvian illegal timber exporter
- One Year Out from 2020 Tokyo Games, NGOs Appeal to Tokyo Governor to End Ivory Trade
One Year Out from 2020 Tokyo Games, NGOs Appeal to Tokyo Governor to End Ivory Trade
One Year Out from 2020 Tokyo Games, NGOs Appeal to Tokyo Governor to End Ivory Trade
- Condenando El Bosque
Condenando El Bosque
Un nuevo informe de investigación de Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Condenando el Bosque, revela el modus operandi utilizado por traficantes para comercializar madera con permisos comprados en el mercado negro, incluyendo especies protegidas como el cedro; y detalla cómo intermediarios aprovechan vacíos legales para lavar madera y escapar cualquier responsabilidad legal, dejando que los titulares de los permisos de aprovechamiento paguen las consecuencias.
- California Green Lights Incentive Program to Reduce HFCs
California Green Lights Incentive Program to Reduce HFCs
This week California’s legislature approved a 2019-2020 budget providing $1 million to create an incentive program for reducing emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases, including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Established by the California Cooling Act (SB1013) passed last year, the program will incentivize adoption of climate-friendly refrigerant technologies, with a mandate to also consider other co-benefits such as energy efficiency and opportunities for increasing recovery, reclamation, and destruction of refrigerants at end-of-life.