Reports
- Stealing the Last Forest
Stealing the Last Forest
Romania is home to Europe's last remaining virgin forests and some of the continent's largest populations of bears, wolves, and lynx. Theseforests are under serious threat due to rampant illegal logging. Over a multi-year investigation, EIA documented...
- Lost at Sea: The urgent need to tackle marine litter
Lost at Sea: The urgent need to tackle marine litter
In the latest from our colleagues at EIA-UK, a new report, Lost at Sea, calls on governments, industry, retailers, and consumers to help end the appalling damage that plastic waste inflicts on marine environments...
- Organized Chaos: The illicit overland timber trade between Myanmar and China
Organized Chaos: The illicit overland timber trade between Myanmar and China
In January 2015, the Myanmar army raided an illegal logging operation in a remote mountainous region in the country’s Kachin State. The conviction and subsequent pardon of 155 Chinese nationals in July for illegal logging in Myanmar threw a spotlight on how massive...
- LETTER: Environmental and Human Rights Groups Submit Letter to Colombian President
LETTER: Environmental and Human Rights Groups Submit Letter to Colombian President
On September 15, EIA and a coalition of environmental and human rights groups submitted a letter to the president of Colombia, Juan Santos, to express concern regarding the irregular accumulation of lands in Mapiripán...
- LETTER: Scientists Unite to Call for Tighter Ivory Controls on World Elephant Day
LETTER: Scientists Unite to Call for Tighter Ivory Controls on World Elephant Day
EIA has joined a coalition of NGOs and scientists calling on the Obama Administration for tighter ivory controls. The letter, signed by 250 scientists from varied backgrounds, disciplines and institutions, emphasizes that existing...
Mapiripán: Between Water and Oil Palm
In collaboration with the Colombian human rights non-profit La Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, EIA invites you to learn about the devastating impact that the growing palm oil sector in Colombia has had on the local communities of Mapiripan...
- A Rights-Based Approach to Land Use
A Rights-Based Approach to Land Use
Negotiations are currently underway for a new global climate agreement, in which all countries will commit to limiting greenhouse gas emissions to try and prevent the worst impacts of climate change...
- Making History: negotiating a Global Agreement on HFCs
Making History: negotiating a Global Agreement on HFCs
EIA campaigners will be at the 36th Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Paris from Monday, July 20...
- Convenience Kills: SPAR Norway helps prop up Norwegian whaling
Convenience Kills: SPAR Norway helps prop up Norwegian whaling
SPAR Norway and its parent company NorgesGruppen ASA are important facilitators of the distribution and sale of whale meat in Norway. Food products from the hunts of protected minke whales killed in Norwegian...
- Transparency and Accountability, Tree by Tree: Peru
Transparency and Accountability, Tree by Tree: Peru
EIA has created a briefing to provide an overview of Peru's Agency for Supervision of Forest Resources and Wildlife (OSINFOR), an autonomous government entity with...
- EIA 2014 Annual Report
EIA 2014 Annual Report
EIA's official 2014 Annual Report includes a complete financial report as well as the major accomplishments achieved by each of our three core campaigns...
- Beyond the Dirty Dozen
Beyond the Dirty Dozen
EIA has released a new report exposing leading U.S. retailers such as Walmart, Publix, and Safeway as doing little to meet public commitments to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), some of the most potent greenhouse gases (GHGs), used most commonly in...
- LETTER: EIA Signs Letter Opposing Fast Track
LETTER: EIA Signs Letter Opposing Fast Track
EIA has signed onto a letter with over 40 nonprofit and nongovernmental groups to voice strong opposition to proposed fast track legislation of a U.S. trade agreement that seriously threatens the environment...
- HFC-free Procurement and Refrigerant Management
HFC-free Procurement and Refrigerant Management
Today the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a new report that aims to serve as a resource for U.S. officials and procurement officers to incorporate HFC-free procurement into...
- Failure to Enforce Environmental Obligations of Peru FTA
Failure to Enforce Environmental Obligations of Peru FTA
Today the Environmental Investigation Agency released a briefing that highlights a significant deficit in implementation and enforcement within the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and its Annex on Forest Sector Governance...
- Putting the Freeze on HFCs: 2015 Supplement
Putting the Freeze on HFCs: 2015 Supplement
This is the 2015 Supplement to EIA's 2014 report, Putting the Freeze on HFCs: A Global Digest of Available Climate-Friendly Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies. It is an overview of available technology alternatives to hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are extremely potent greenhouse gases...
- LETTER: Coalition Urges Japanese Prime Minister to Ban Domestic Ivory Trade
LETTER: Coalition Urges Japanese Prime Minister to Ban Domestic Ivory Trade
A coalition of 24 environmental groups from Africa, Japan, the United States, and Europe have urged Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to enact immediate measure...
- LETTER: Leaked Letter of Holzindustrie Schweighofer
LETTER: Leaked Letter of Holzindustrie Schweighofer
EIA has exposed the largest forest products company in Romania, Holzindustrie Schweighofer, of buying illegally harvested timber and incentivizing additional cutting through a bonus system...
- Strengthening the Multilateral Fund to Maximize Climate Benefits
Strengthening the Multilateral Fund to Maximize Climate Benefits
Developing countries have the opportunity to make transitions to HFC-free technologies leading to reduced HFC emissions as well as significant gains in energy efficiency from substantially improved...
- Deforestation by Definition
Deforestation by Definition
EIA has launched a new investigative report, Deforestation by Definition, exposing the ongoing and looming threat of illegal deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon due to installation of agro-industrial monoculture plantations...
- Sin City: Illegal wildlife trade in Laos’ Special Economic Zone
Sin City: Illegal wildlife trade in Laos’ Special Economic Zone
A report documenting how the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GT SEZ) in Bokeo Province, Laos, has effectively become a hub for trade in illegal wildlife...
- Palm Oil Development in the Congo Basin
Palm Oil Development in the Congo Basin
EIA's work in the Congo Basin involves collaboration with civil society, indigenous communities, and government to ensure that palm oil development in the region is conducted...
- Solving Climate Change: Towards a global deal on HFCs in 2015
Solving Climate Change: Towards a global deal on HFCs in 2015
As the international community heads towards a landmark climate change agreement at COP 21 in Paris, 2015 must also mark the year Parties to the Montreal Protocol launch...
- Environmental Investigation Agency: 25 Years of Protecting The Environment with Intelligence
Environmental Investigation Agency: 25 Years of Protecting The Environment with Intelligence
This report is a brief reflection on the past 25 years of EIA’s work. We hope you enjoy reading about some of our most impressive accomplishments, and express our heartfelt thanks...
- Palm Oil Expansion and Illegal Forest Conversion in Cameroon
Palm Oil Expansion and Illegal Forest Conversion in Cameroon
Palm oil, originally from Africa, is the most widely used oil on the planet, and global demand is increasing. Unsustainable palm oil development poses increasing social, economic, and environmental threats in the Congo Basin...