Reports
- A Call to Action on HFCs: COP 19
A Call to Action on HFCs: COP 19
Our planet is on the brink. The recently released IPCC Summary for Policymakers warns of the dangers of the already changing climate — warmer oceans, melting snow and ice, and increased sea levels. It provides a clear signal...
- MEMO: Walmart and HFCs - Letter to EIA from Walmart
MEMO: Walmart and HFCs - Letter to EIA from Walmart
Memo: Walmart and HFCs - Letter to EIA from Walmart...
- Toxic Catch
Toxic Catch
More than one million whales, dolphins and porpoises have been slaughtered off Japan in the past 70 years – and new analysis by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) indicates these unsustainable hunts are on track to wipe out key species...
- Wheels in Motion: Towards an international phase-down of HFCs
Wheels in Motion: Towards an international phase-down of HFCs
In a year that has seen concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide pass the 400ppm mark and the world’s scientific community issue its starkest warning yet that human activities will result in far-reaching disruption...
- The Dirty Dozen: How your local supermarket is killing the climate
The Dirty Dozen: How your local supermarket is killing the climate
Supermarkets in the United States emit large amounts of potent greenhouse gases known as HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), which are widely used in commercial refrigeration and air-conditioning. A dozen of the largest...
- Liquidating the Forests
Liquidating the Forests
EIA's new investigative video details the extent and nature of illegal logging in the Russian Far East (RFE) and tracks illegally harvested valuable hardwoods across the border into China...
- STATEMENT: Sierra Club Statement on New Evidence of Illegal Logging and Trade
STATEMENT: Sierra Club Statement on New Evidence of Illegal Logging and Trade
Today, the Environmental Investigation Agency is presenting striking new evidence demonstrating the extent and complexity of the illegal timber trade, and the continued need to address this urgent problem. Illegal logging and trade...
- Liquidating the Forests
Liquidating the Forests
EIA investigative report exposes Lumber Liquidators of importing illegal wood into the United States.
- LETTER: To SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son
- Lacey Act Testimony of EIA Executive Director Alexander von Bismarck
Lacey Act Testimony of EIA Executive Director Alexander von Bismarck
On July 17, 2013 EIA's Executive Director delivered the below testimony during the Natural Resource Committee's Oversight Hearing on "Why Should U.S. Citizens Have to Comply with Foreign Laws?" In the testimony, he discusses EIA's experience...
- Stage 2 HPMPs: Must Maximize Climate and Energy Benefits
Stage 2 HPMPs: Must Maximize Climate and Energy Benefits
At its 53rd and 54th meetings, the Executive Committee (ExCom) decided that all HPMPs should capture the spirit of decision XIX/6 and address the benefits for the climate when looking at alternatives...
- Two Billion Tonne Climate Bomb
Two Billion Tonne Climate Bomb
EIA investigators have discovered that many Chinese and Indian facilities, despite having destruction technology readily available, are releasing or threatening to emit...
- End in Sight for HFCs
End in Sight for HFCs
Parties to the UNFCCC are currently discussing initiatives to address the pre-2020 ambition gap under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP). One initiative...
- How Phasing Out HFCs Will Help Close the Pre-2020 Mitigation Gap
How Phasing Out HFCs Will Help Close the Pre-2020 Mitigation Gap
HFCs are man-made fluorinated gases developed and commercialised to replace CFCs, HCFCs and other chemicals that...
- Stage 2 Guidelines: Opportunity to Maximize Benefits of HFC Phase-Out
Stage 2 Guidelines: Opportunity to Maximize Benefits of HFC Phase-Out
At its 53rd and 54th meetings, the Executive Committee (ExCom) decided that all HPMPs should capture the spirit of decision XIX/6 and address...
- The Environmental Investigation Agency’s submission on ADP Work Stream 2 on pre-2020 ambition
The Environmental Investigation Agency’s submission on ADP Work Stream 2 on pre-2020 ambition
HFCs currently represent around 1% of global GHG emissions. Although their contribution to climate forcing is still relatively small, it is expected to...
- Vietnam’s Illegal Rhino Horn Trade: Undermining the Effectiveness of CITES
Vietnam’s Illegal Rhino Horn Trade: Undermining the Effectiveness of CITES
EIA released a new report, "Vietnam's Illegal Rhino Horn Trade," which describes how Vietnam has failed to meet its CITES obligations designed to protect rhinos. This briefing summarizes key points from a recently submitted Pelly Petition...
- Petition to Certify Vietnam as Diminishing the Effectiveness of CITES
Petition to Certify Vietnam as Diminishing the Effectiveness of CITES
EIA filed a petition on December 21, 2012 under the Pelly Amendment to the U.S. Fishermen’s Protective Act to certify Vietnam as diminishing the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...
- The Montreal Protocol in 2012: Celebrating Past Achievements and Facing up to Future Challenges
The Montreal Protocol in 2012: Celebrating Past Achievements and Facing up to Future Challenges
A quarter of a century after the signing of the landmark treaty, we have reduced consumption and production of 97 ozone depleting substances...
- HFC-Free Technologies Are Available in the US Market for the Supermarket Retail Refrigeration Sector
HFC-Free Technologies Are Available in the US Market for the Supermarket Retail Refrigeration Sector
Research is currently underway to prove and commercialize additional applications for natural refrigerants in supermarket refrigeration systems; over time...
- APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION: China’s trade in illegal timber
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION: China’s trade in illegal timber
In November 2011 China hosted the annual Asia-Pacific Forestry Week meeting conference at an impressive and vast centre near the Olympic Stadium in Beijing. During the week-long event participants from around Asia and beyond discussed a range of issues...
- The Montreal Protocol in 2012: Ending the Reign of Fluorocarbons, Answering the Call on Climate
The Montreal Protocol in 2012: Ending the Reign of Fluorocarbons, Answering the Call on Climate
Under the Vienna Convention, the Montreal Protocol has been tasked with responsibility for controlling ozone-depleting substances (ODS) and dealing with...
- La Máquina Lavadora
La Máquina Lavadora
En este informe EIA logra documentar por primera vez la exportación e importación sistemática de madera ilegal de Perú a EEUU. Aquí no se cuenta una historia nueva: la corrupción en el sistema forestal y cómo funciona...
- The Laundering Machine
The Laundering Machine
In this report, EIA documents for the first time the systematic export and import of illegal wood from Peru to the United States. In many ways, this report not a new story: the system’s corruption is something of which everyone in the sector...
- KILLING FOR COMMERCE Yahoo! fails to stop the sale of endangered and threatened whales & dolphins
KILLING FOR COMMERCE Yahoo! fails to stop the sale of endangered and threatened whales & dolphins
Although Yahoo! has banned cetacean and other endangered wildlife products from all its websites except for Japan, there is no evidence it has made any significant effort to persuade its Japanese subsidiary to end these sales...