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WEBMaking the law work. The EIA’s response to the UK Government’s legislation on forest risk commodities. In 2021, the UK Government passed the Environment Act, under which businesses will be required to establish and implement a due diligence system to ensure the forest-risk commodities they use are legal. To date, we are still waiting for ...
EIA Reports – We investigate and campaign against environmental …
WEBWe investigate and campaign against environmental crime and abuse. Our undercover investigations expose transnational wildlife crime, with a focus on elephants, pangolins and tigers and forest crimes such as illegal logging and …
What is CITES? - EIA
WEBSep 28, 2022 · The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement to which governments voluntarily adhere and which seeks to ensure that the trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.. The annual international trade in wildlife is estimated to be worth billions of dollars and ranges from live animals ...
About us - EIA
WEBOur mission. Our mission is to protect the natural world by: Exposing environmental destruction and loss of biodiversity through uncompromising and innovative investigations. Using this evidence and research to uncover environmental crimes and abuses and those responsible. Campaigning for protection of the environment through better enforcement ...
Fighting deforestation and illegal logging - EIA
WEBDeforestation due to illegal logging and destructive forest conversion is directly connected to corruption and crime, cronyism, curbs on transparency and accountability, selective law enforcement, elitist land tenure and compromised judiciaries, and often involves state officials and security apparatus. A forest village.
Success as UN meeting makes an historic commitment to …
WEBMar 2, 2022 · The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has been in the vanguard of the campaign to secure a plastics treaty, culminating in the process at UNEA, the highest-level decision-making body on the environment. Virgin plastics production has risen from two million tonnes a year in 1950 to 460 million tonnes in 2020 and is projected ...
Three years on from Uganda’s 2019 ivory and pangolin scale …
WEBJan 26, 2022 · Our Pangolin Campaign leader Chris Hamley said: “EIA has been monitoring this case closely since January 2019. While initially action from the Ugandan authorities seemed positive, as time has progressed it is clear …
For 20 years we’ve urged China to ban the use of illegal timber – …
WEBJan 20, 2020 · In an extraordinary move, China is changing its Forest Law to include a nationwide ban on buying, processing or transporting illegally sourced timber. “This is potentially huge, a real game-changer for both the future of the planet’s precious forests and the battle against dangerous climate change,” said Faith Doherty, our Forests ...
Plastic Waste Trade – EIA Reports
WEBThe global trade in plastic waste has mirrored the growth in global plastic production, allowing high income, high-consuming countries to avoid the direct social and environmental impacts of their plastic problem and driving the ever-expanding production and consumption of virgin (new) plastics. EIA’s report – ‘The Truth Behind Trash ...
Evaluation and impact assessment for amending Regulation (EU) …
WEBWritten response to “Briefing paper for stakeholder workshop: Preliminary findings 6 May 2021” Preliminary findings of the evaluation and impact assessment for amending the EU F-Gas Regulation were presented and discussed in a stakeholder workshop on 6 May 2021. This briefing collates the comments and requests for further evaluation by EIA and other civil society organisations.
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