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The climate impact of cooling equipment, including fridges and air-conditioners, is two-fold: they use huge amounts of electricity and often rely on super-polluting refrigerant gases such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Sign-on Letter to Biden Administration on Addressing Zoonotic Disease Spillover Risk

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EIA, together with more than 60 other environmental and conservation organizations, is calling on the Biden Administration to adopt strategies and policies critical to addressing the increasing threat of zoonotic disease spillover into human populations.

Open Letter to the 117th Congress and Biden-Harris Administration on Tackling Global Deforestation

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The undersigned civil society organizations call on Congress and the Biden-Harris administration to enact significant new trade rules and policy measures to support the health and well-being of the world’s forests and the people who depend on them.

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NGO Appeal to Tokyo for Urgent Measures on Ivory

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EIA and 25 international non-government environmental and conservation organizations sent a letter February 18, 2021 to follow up on a previous appeal from March 2020. Our organizations encourage the closure of Tokyo's ivory market and also recommend some actions the Tokyo Metropolitan Government should take before the ivory market can be closed, including during the rescheduled 2020 Olympic Games. The letter can be viewed in English and Japanese.

Leaking Havoc: Exposing Your Supermarket’s Invisible Climate Pollution

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An EIA investigation into dozens of supermarkets in the greater Washington, D.C. area, including Virginia and Maryland, found a majority of stores to be leaking super-pollutant hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants

Willing to Sell: Snapshot Investigations of Ivory Hanko Retailers in Japan

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Report: Willing to Sell- Snapshot Investigations of Ivory Hanko Retailers in Japan

LETTER: EIA, IIAR and over 120 Stakeholders Call on California to Require Climate-Friendly Cooling in Ice Rinks

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EIA and the International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration (IIAR) joined by over 120 other stakeholders, submitted a letter to the California Air Resources Board calling to limit refrigerants in new ice rink refrigeration systems to under a 150 global warming potential (GWP).

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Tainted Timber, Tarnished Temples

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How the Cameroon-Vietnam Timber Trade Hurts the Cameroonian People and Forests

Bois Volé, Temples Souillés

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Les conséquences néfastes du commerce du bois entre le Cameroun et le Vietnam sur les populations et les forêts camerounaises

The Risk of Ozone-Depletion Persists - Comments to EPA

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EIA submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the draft risk assessments of methylene chloride, carbon tetrachloride, and other priority chemicals undergoing risk evaluations under the Amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

EIA Briefing on the IEC Standards Proposal for Air Conditioning

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With global stock of household air conditioners (ACs) expected to triple by 2050, continued use of HFCs in ACs is fueling the climate crisis.

The Pebble Tapes

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The Pebble Tapes are a series of recorded conversations between EIA investigators and the Chief Executive Officers of Pebble Limited Partnership and Northern Dynasty Minerals, the companies behind the contested Pebble Mine project in Alaska.

2019 Impact Report

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In 2019, EIA again demonstrated the many successes of our powerful investigations and campaigns to protect our beautiful world and to work effectively with global decisionmakers, leaders, and civil society in order to continue to challenge and disrupt major threats to our natural world and its rich biodiversity.

EIA Comments to OEWG-42

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EIA Comments to the 42nd Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG-42) TEAP Replenishment Task Force Report .

Find an HFC-free Fridge: A Buyers Guide

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A regularly updated list of consumer refrigerators that do not use hydrofluorocarbons

Cashing-In On Chaos

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Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)’s three-year investigation into the Senegal-Gambia-China rosewood traffic uncovered unprecedented evidence on a series of major forest crimes.

EIA Comments on ASHRAE-15 Standards Proposal

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EIA comments on a proposed revision to a major U.S. safety standards, ASHRAE-15, calling for important revisions.

Letter: Appeal to Tokyo's Governor Koike for Ivory Market Closure

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With the world looking at Tokyo for the 2021 Olympics, EIA and other organizations urge Tokyo to end the sale of ivory.

Mukula Cartel

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In Zambia the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) found that a handful of very high profile figures have apparently orchestrated and facilitated massive trafficking operations for years that are driving mukula rosewood trees to the edge of commercial extinction, devastating vulnerable forests and threatening communities’ livelihoods.

Search, Reuse and Destroy: Initiating Global Discussion to Act on a 100 Billion Ton Climate Problem

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Search, Reuse and Destroy: Initiating Global Discussion to Act on a 100 Billion Ton Climate Problem

EIA 2018 Impact Report

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In 2018 the Environmental Investigation Agency continued to confront the greatest environmental threats facing the world today. The EIA team pursued, documented and exposed the activities of syndicates that threaten endangered species, damage the climate and ozone layer, and drive the trade in timber stolen from the world’s most important remaining forests.