Reports
- 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...
- 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...