Reports
- The Hongmu Challenge: an EIA Briefing for 66th CITES Standing Committee
The Hongmu Challenge: an EIA Briefing for 66th CITES Standing Committee
Since 2009, Asian demand has boomed for luxury furniture made with rare, high-value, and deeply hued rosewoods, mahoganies, and ebonies. Principally targeting 33 species...
- Time for Action: an EIA Briefing for the 66th CITES Standing Committee
Time for Action: an EIA Briefing for the 66th CITES Standing Committee
In preparation for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) 66th Standing Committee meeting, EIA has produced the following briefing...
- TRANSCRIPT: JWRC Conversations with Undercover Investigator
TRANSCRIPT: JWRC Conversations with Undercover Investigator
Under Japan's domestic ivory laws, all persons looking to trade elephant tusks must first register them with the Japanese Wildlife Research Center (JWRC) to prove they were imported prior to the 1989 international ban...
- TRANSCRIPT: Key Excerpts from Conversations with the Japan Wildlife Research Center
TRANSCRIPT: Key Excerpts from Conversations with the Japan Wildlife Research Center
Key Excerpts from Conversations with the Japan Wildlife Research Center
- Japan’s Illegal Ivory Trade and Fraudulent Registration of Ivory Tusks
Japan’s Illegal Ivory Trade and Fraudulent Registration of Ivory Tusks
Though frequently highlighted as a model of domestic ivory control, Japan’s system is plagued by loopholes and undercut by weak legislation to such an extent that no meaningful control exists...
- Bridging the Emissions Gap with an HFC Amendment under Montreal Protocol
Bridging the Emissions Gap with an HFC Amendment under Montreal Protocol
In the build-up to 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Parties to the Montreal Protocol...
- Who Watches the Watchmen?
Who Watches the Watchmen?
A new report today exposes critical failures in an international system seeking to assure consumers that the palm oil they buy in many thousands of products is sustainable...
- LETTER: EIA joins coalition calling for action in Latin America for palm oil traders
LETTER: EIA joins coalition calling for action in Latin America for palm oil traders
Spurred by the recent murder of Guatemalan environmental and human rights defender Rigoberto Lima Choc, a coalition of twelve global human rights and environmental organizations yesterday alerted the world’s biggest palm oil...
- Solving the Global Climate Crisis: Taking the first step with a Dubai Amendment on HFCs
Solving the Global Climate Crisis: Taking the first step with a Dubai Amendment on HFCs
EIA has been advocating for years for an amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out some of the most potent super greenhouse gases (GHG) known as hydrofluorocarbons...
- DECLARATION: Declaration of Regulatory Emergency on Oil Palm (English translation)
DECLARATION: Declaration of Regulatory Emergency on Oil Palm (English translation)
The expansion of oil palm in the Peruvian Amazon is threat to both the rights of indigenous peoples and the forests on which they depend. EIA revealed the details and irregularities of oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon...
- 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...