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Organised crime allegedly supplies illegal refrigerants to big Italian supply chains - EIA
6+ hour, 42+ min ago (783+ words) Illegal climate-damaging refrigerant gases worth hundreds of millions of euros a year in lost profits to legitimate suppliers are entering Italy via organised criminal networks, penetrating major supply chains including manufacturing, supermarkets and the state railway. In our new report…...
Shared Responsibility - EIA
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (180+ words) Shared Responsibility'eia-international. org Why the European Union and China should collaborate on plastic production controls in the Global Plastics Treaty. While negotiations towards a new legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution have advanced substantially since the first Intergovernmental Negotiating…...
European Chemical Agency supports EU-wide restriction on "forever chemicals" - EIA
1+ week, 2+ day ago (502+ words) The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published its expert opinions in support of bloc-wide restrictions on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals), including climate-harming fluorinated refrigerant gases. The long-awaited opinions were drawn up by its Risk…...
Back to Basics - EIA
1+ week, 2+ day ago (193+ words) Back to Basics'eia-international. org Re-energising the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations and alternative pathways The Global Plastics Treaty negotiations have reached a decisive political moment. The election of Chile's Julio Cordano as Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) and the…...
Climate, conflict and synthetic fertilisers are sowing the seeds of instability - EIA
1+ mon, 3+ hour ago (667+ words) As the latest rupture in an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape, military strikes on Iran by the USA and Israel will likely increase pressure on the world's ability to feed itself " and it begins with synthetic fertilisers. It is barely more…...
Cutting climate finance is not saving money " it is exporting risk back to the UK - EIA
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (744+ words) The UK Government has promised global climate leadership, yet new evidence shows that programmes designed to protect forests, oceans and climate stability in developing countries are being quietly cut, scaled back or drip-fed year-by-year. At least "11. 6 billion was pledged for…...
Dandora " a polluted, dangerous dumping ground for the global textile trade - EIA
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1393+ words) Legal and Policy Specialist We are grateful for the additional contributions to this blog from Solomon Njoroge In December, I travelled to Kenya's Dandora dumpsite outside the capital Nairobi with colleagues from EIA. We were there with a specific purpose…...
EIA and conservation partners unite to seek the end of commercial whaling - EIA
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (371+ words) To mark this year's 40th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, EIA and a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organisations have joined forces to launch a global petition to end commercial whaling. Despite the global…...
Plans to protect Atlantic humpback dolphins are moving forward in Congo! - EIA
2+ mon, 1+ hour ago (433+ words) As part of the International Whaling Commission's Bycatch Mitigation Initiative (BMI), five members of the IWCs Bycatch Expert Panel (of whom I am one) contributed to a 10-day bycatch risk assessment workshop in the Republic of Congo. The event last…...
Mexico's plan to slash vaquita porpoise protected habitat would be a disaster - EIA
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (319+ words) Despite the critically endangered vaquita porpoise still teetering on the brink of extinction, the Government of Mexico is considering a proposal to reduce its protected habitat by more than 85 per cent. Scientists estimate that as few as 10 vaquita may remain…...