Reports
- 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...
- Full Steam Ahead: Charting the Path to a Future Without HFCs
Full Steam Ahead: Charting the Path to a Future Without HFCs
As the international community heads towards a milestone climate change agreement in 2015, the Parties to the Montreal Protocol stand poised to begin...
- Vanishing Point – Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania’s Elephants
Vanishing Point – Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania’s Elephants
EIA's latest report, The Vanishing Point: Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania's Elephants, delves into how Tanzania’s elephants are once more being slaughtered in vast numbers to feed a resurgent ivory...
- Endangered Belugas in a Melting Arctic: A Call to Action for Arctic Nations
Endangered Belugas in a Melting Arctic: A Call to Action for Arctic Nations
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has released a new report, Endangered Belugas and the Growing Threats of Climate Change, Arctic Shipping and Industrialization...
- Action on HFCs: The Time is Now
Action on HFCs: The Time is Now
Held up as a beacon of hope by environmentalists and governments the world over, the Montreal Protocol has resulted in a 9..8 percent drop in the...
- Slayed in Iceland: The Commercial Hunting and Trade in Endangered Fin Whales
Slayed in Iceland: The Commercial Hunting and Trade in Endangered Fin Whales
Slayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales has been jointly released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC)...
- LETTER: EIA Writes Letter to Costco Following Retailer’s Settlement with U.S. Government
LETTER: EIA Writes Letter to Costco Following Retailer’s Settlement with U.S. Government
In response to a Consent Decree Costco signed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice concerning violations to the Clean Air Act, EIA sent a letter to...
- STATEMENT: China’s Voluntary Guidelines Not Enough to Stop Illegal Timber Trade
STATEMENT: China’s Voluntary Guidelines Not Enough to Stop Illegal Timber Trade
In this statement, EIA commends China's State Forestry Administration’s increased attention to the globally important issue of the illegal timber trade, and its increasingly consultative approach to policy development. However, EIA believes another round...
- Putting the Freeze on HFCs
Putting the Freeze on HFCs
Today, HFCs are the most commonly used refrigerants in new refrigeration and air-conditioning systems in the United States and increasingly in developing countries, but these refrigerants...
- Mozambique: Diminishing the Effectiveness of CITES Rhinos and Elephant Protections
Mozambique: Diminishing the Effectiveness of CITES Rhinos and Elephant Protections
Two-page summary of how Mozambique has consistently failed to live up to its obligations under the CITES, which is designed to protect creatures such as rhinoceroses and elephants.
- 2014: A Year of Action on HFCs
2014: A Year of Action on HFCs
Climate change is manifesting itself in ever more alarming ways. Devastating bush fires, historic droughts, and recurrent flooding...
- LETTER: EIA Signs Letter Petitioning Peruvian President to Reject Economic Policy
LETTER: EIA Signs Letter Petitioning Peruvian President to Reject Economic Policy
Over 100 international organizations have signed a letter to Peruvian President Ollanta Humala asking that he withdraw support for legislation, passed July 3 by the Peruvian Congress...
- The Ongoing Illegal Logging Crisis In Madagascar
The Ongoing Illegal Logging Crisis In Madagascar
Since 2009, the impoverished island nation of Madagascar has fallen prey to a mafia a of illegal rosewood traders, threatening all that remains of its once pristine forests, home to some...
- Rosewood and the Illegal Logging Crisis in Belize
Rosewood and the Illegal Logging Crisis in Belize
Severe lack of enforcement both in Belize and among consumer countries, most notably China, threatens to render protection for rosewood in Belize ineffective. Illegal logging of...
- LETTER: EIA Signs Letter for Comprehensive Land Use Planning
LETTER: EIA Signs Letter for Comprehensive Land Use Planning
In this sign-on letter, EIA, with 54 international and regional organizations, calls on the ADP to take a comprehensive land-use planning approach to create a global climate agreement that effectively addresses emissions...
- Consumer Goods Forum Briefing
Consumer Goods Forum Briefing
In 2010, the Consumer Goods Forum made international headlines with its ambitious pledge to being phasing out HFCs by 2015. Four years later, we review the CGF's progress to date and identify further opportunities...
- The Open Door: Japan’s Continuing Failure to Prevent Imports of Illegal Russian Timber
The Open Door: Japan’s Continuing Failure to Prevent Imports of Illegal Russian Timber
In recent years, Japan has been the subject of increasing scrutiny regarding timber imports from tropical forested countries, the legality of which has at times been questioned by environmental groups. However, Japan’s imports of timber...
- Lacey Act FAQ
Lacey Act FAQ
Frequently asked questions about the U.S. Lacey Act, the world's first ban on trade in illegal wood...