Reports
- Transitioning HFCs in India: The Opportunity for Climate Friendly Cooling in the Fast Food Industry
Transitioning HFCs in India: The Opportunity for Climate Friendly Cooling in the Fast Food Industry
Transitioning HFCs in India, studies some of the fastest growing multinational fast food chains in India – a country with significantly increasing HFC emissions due to its expanding market. Eight fast food chains in India...
- LETTER: U.S. House Of Representatives letter to Japan Regarding Ivory
LETTER: U.S. House Of Representatives letter to Japan Regarding Ivory
On September 9, 2016 a bipartisan coalition of 16 members of the United States House Representatices sent a leter to Japanese Ambassador Kenichir Sasae urging the government of Japan to enact a ban...
- The Need for Smarter Standards and Codes in Cooling
The Need for Smarter Standards and Codes in Cooling
As Parties to Montreal Protocol negotiate a global agreement for an HFC phase-down this year, several safety standards and building codes are threatening to limit...
- Bringing the U.S. Fridge Market into the 21st Century
Bringing the U.S. Fridge Market into the 21st Century
HFC-134a, a type of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant with a high global warming poten- tial (GWP) 1,430 times that of carbon dioxide, is used in virtually all new U.S. domestic refrigerators and freezers...
- Missing the Forest for the Carbon? EIA Analysis of the FCPF Carbon Fund
Missing the Forest for the Carbon? EIA Analysis of the FCPF Carbon Fund
Launched in 2008, the FCPF was among the first multilateral funds to support countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+). After eight years of financial support for...
- The Importance of Ambition in the 2016 HFC Phase-Down Agreement
The Importance of Ambition in the 2016 HFC Phase-Down Agreement
Following the adoption of the Dubai Pathway on HFCs, Parties to the Montreal Protocol are set to negotiate and adopt an HFC amendment in 2016, the first major...
- Petition to Certify Mozambique as Diminishing the Effectiveness of CITES
Petition to Certify Mozambique as Diminishing the Effectiveness of CITES
Petition to Certify Mozambique as Diminishing the Effectiveness of CITES
- Built on Lies: New Homes in Japan Destroy Old Forests in Europe
Built on Lies: New Homes in Japan Destroy Old Forests in Europe
The indiscriminate sourcing practices of Japanese companies are fueling illegal logging in Europe's last remaining virgin forests. Since arriving in Romania in 2002...
- LETTER: Members of Maroon 5 Letter to President of Romania
LETTER: Members of Maroon 5 Letter to President of Romania
On June 5, 2016, Members of Maroon 5, James Valentine and Jesse Carmichael, sent a letter to the president of Romania offering their support to Romania's fight against illegal logging...
- LSE Financing Illegal Deforestation in Peru via AIM-listed United Cacao Ltd. SEZC
LSE Financing Illegal Deforestation in Peru via AIM-listed United Cacao Ltd. SEZC
In a briefing by the Environmental Investigation Agency, evidence reveals that United Cacao Limited SEZC, traded on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), financed over 11,100 hectares of illegal deforestation...
- LETTER: EIA, Indigenous Groups Write Letter, Calling for Removal of United Cacao Ltd. from LSE
LETTER: EIA, Indigenous Groups Write Letter, Calling for Removal of United Cacao Ltd. from LSE
In a sign-on letter sent to the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), over 60 indigenous organizations and NGOs from Peru, Europe, and the United States raise grave concerns related to ongoing illegal...
- Avoiding Illegal Timber in China: Due Diligence Recommendations
Avoiding Illegal Timber in China: Due Diligence Recommendations
A new EIA investigation shows that many Japanese companies are not conducting due diligence to avoid sourcing illegal wood products in China. Due diligence is key...
- Using Every Tool to Protect the World’s Wildlife: How the U.S. Pelly Amendment can help stop poaching
Using Every Tool to Protect the World’s Wildlife: How the U.S. Pelly Amendment can help stop poaching
EIA's brief overview of the Pelly Amendment and its uses and potential impacts.
- Putting the Freeze on HFCs: 2016 Update
Putting the Freeze on HFCs: 2016 Update
The Dubai Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in November 2015 marked a major turning point in the global movement toward phasing down hydrofluorocarbons...
- Pathway to Adoption of a Global HFC Phase-Down
Pathway to Adoption of a Global HFC Phase-Down
2015 was the hottest year on record and 2016 is expected to be even warmer. Fifteen of the last sixteen hottest years since records began have occurred since 2001, and January and February 2016 have already...
- LETTER: Musicians, Reverb, EIA send letter to Guatemalan President
LETTER: Musicians, Reverb, EIA send letter to Guatemalan President
Inspired by a recent trip to Guatemala with EIA and partner Reverb, Jesse Carmichael and James Valentine of Maroon 5 and Adam Gardner of Guster, have sent a letter to the President of Guatemala, asking him to support...
- LETTER: Request for SoftBank to End Yahoo! Japan’s Elephant Ivory Advertisements and Sales
LETTER: Request for SoftBank to End Yahoo! Japan’s Elephant Ivory Advertisements and Sales
EIA has led a coalition of environmental organizations in an open letter to SoftBank and Yahoo! Japan executives, urging an end to ivory sales on Yahoo! Japan's auction site...
- The Importance of Closing Domestic Ivory Markets
The Importance of Closing Domestic Ivory Markets
Behind the elephant slaughter is the demand for ivory trinkets, which is justified worldwide by countries' legal domestic markets for elephant ivory products...
- EIA Case for Pan-Arctic Marine Protected Areas Network
EIA Case for Pan-Arctic Marine Protected Areas Network
As the major intergovernmental forum for the Arctic Ocean, the Arctic Council has always taken its responsibility for environmental protection seriously. Unfortunately, in spite...
- 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...