Reports
- ODS TRACKING: Feasibility Study on Developing a System for Monitoring the Ozone Depleting Substances
ODS TRACKING: Feasibility Study on Developing a System for Monitoring the Ozone Depleting Substances
There are many possible components and variations of ‘systems for monitoring transboundary movement’ or ‘tracking mechanisms’. Import and export licensing schemes...
- Opportunity Wasted Methyl Bromide: Our best chance to Reduce Ozone Depletion Now
Opportunity Wasted Methyl Bromide: Our best chance to Reduce Ozone Depletion Now
The impact of methyl bromide on the ozone layer is unusually severe and rapid. Bromine, the ozone-depleting element found in methyl bromide, is nearly 60 times more...
- Giant European and North American Manufacturers and Retailers Still Trading Merbau Wood Flooring
Giant European and North American Manufacturers and Retailers Still Trading Merbau Wood Flooring
Rampant illegal logging of merbau trees is driving the destruction of the largest remaining tract of virgin tropical forest in Asia – the jungles of the remote Indonesian province of Papua...
- America’s Free Trade for Illegal Lumber
America’s Free Trade for Illegal Lumber
As this report is published, the US is cementing economic partnerships which could further speed the destruction of Southeast Asian and Latin American forests. The list of looming US Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) reads...
- Behind The Veneer: How Indonesia’s Last Rainforests are being felled for Flooring
Behind The Veneer: How Indonesia’s Last Rainforests are being felled for Flooring
Demand-driven illegal logging in Indonesia is destroying one of the world’s most important remaining tracts of undisturbed tropical forest. Despite unprecedented enforcement operations...
- Under the Counter: China’s Booming Illegal Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances
Under the Counter: China’s Booming Illegal Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances
EIA has been actively tracking the global illegal trade in ozone depleting chemical since the mid-1990s and has built up a unique dossier on...
- La Crisis De La Tala Ilegal En Honduras
La Crisis De La Tala Ilegal En Honduras
La caoba, una de las maderas duras de más alto valor, es cada vez más escasa y podría desaparecer en tan solo diez ó quince años. La singular Reserva de la Biosfera del Río Plátano, declarada Sitio de Patrimonio Mundial...
- We Don’t Buy It!
We Don’t Buy It!
From the outset of their large-scale commercial hunting operations in the late 1920s until the international ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha profited from the death...
- The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras
The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras
One of the poorest countries in Latin America, Honduras is losing up to $18 million a year in lost stumpage fees and other forest-based revenue. Yet this is only the tip of the iceberg of a massive, nationwide...
- The Continued Destruction of the Ozone Layer and U.S. Abuse of Methyl Bromide “Critical-Use” Exemptions
The Continued Destruction of the Ozone Layer and U.S. Abuse of Methyl Bromide “Critical-Use” Exemptions
In a reversal of historic American leadership based on transparency and accountability, the U.S. government has refused to divulge information about....
- The Last Frontier: Illegal Logging in Papua and China’s Massive Timber Theft
The Last Frontier: Illegal Logging in Papua and China’s Massive Timber Theft
Asia has already lost 95 per cent of its frontier forests. Most of what remains is confined to the Indonesian archipelago – and the province of Papua in Indonesia is home to the largest tract. This report exposes...
- Profiting from Plunder: How Malaysia Smuggles Endangered Wood
Profiting from Plunder: How Malaysia Smuggles Endangered Wood
EIA and Telapak have repeatedly exposed the criminals behind this multi-billion dollar industry. In this report we expose the largest ever smuggling operation of the valuable and protected...
- ABOVE THE LAW: Corruption, Collusion, Nepotism and the Fate of Indonesia’s Forests
ABOVE THE LAW: Corruption, Collusion, Nepotism and the Fate of Indonesia’s Forests
Although poverty, economic collapse, provincial autonomy and many other factors contribute to forest destruction, these are not at the core of the problem. Forests are being destroyed because Indonesia...