Plastics are estimated to cause more than $1.5 trillion in global health-related economic losses each year and, taking the ...

EIA is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with more than 40 years of experience investigating environmental crime and supporting effective policy development and implementation at the international ...

All eight recognised species of pangolin face high risks of extinction, with the primary threats to their survival being poaching and trade of their meat, body parts and scales. In order to address ...

EIA and 53 environmental and civil society organisations from around the world have written to the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to urge the Government to commit to a ...

The UK produces the second largest amount of plastic waste per capita globally, with an estimated 1.7 billion items of plastic discarded weekly – averaging 90 billion items per person each year. More ...

Despite taking some commendable steps to tackle illegal wildlife trade, Vietnam remains a regional hub for criminal networks smuggling products such as ivory, pangolin scales and rhino horns from ...

World leaders, negotiators, campaigners and corporate lobbyists assembled in Geneva’s Palais des Nations last month for what was intended to be the final, decisive round of talks to establish a ...

Fluorinated gases (F-gases) have, for many decades, been used as refrigerants and in other applications such as foam blowing and fire suppression. The first generation of F-gases were ozone-depleting ...

This Sunday (8 June) is United Nations World Oceans Day and the theme for 2025 is ‘Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us’. The ocean sustains we humans in many ways – capturing carbon, providing ...

For decades, cetacean entanglement and mortality in commercial and recreational fishing gear has been a major conservation challenge and welfare concern. EIA has identified 15 populations of cetaceans ...

Loopholes in EU regulations appear to be driving unsustainable and fraudulent palm oil trade. EIA’s new briefing The Palm Oil Black Box – EU trade loopholes analyses EU trade patterns for palm oil and ...