Last week, a German court dismissed a legal challenge concerning Myanmar teak used in the refurbishment of the German naval training vessel Gorch Fock, in a ruling that risks undermining enforcement ...

But today (23 July) a major industry group in Spain representing the grocery trade has issued a called for a delay the phasedown of F-gases in retail settings. Members of the Spanish Association of ...

The UK is warming faster than the global average and is increasingly exposed to dangerous heat. More frequent and intense heatwaves are already causing thousands of excess deaths each year, while ...

This report examines how timber moves into one of the world’s most important wood-processing hubs – Vietnam. During the past two decades, Vietnam has become a major global exporter of furniture and ...

Negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty are stuck in limbo, but new EIA research indicates that there are alternative ways forward to both lower plastics production and get around the petrostates ...

The global trade in used textiles and textile waste has expanded rapidly alongside the rise of fast fashion and synthetic fibre production. Yet despite textiles increasingly serving as a ...

New EIA analysis indicates the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region is resuming its long-held key role in trafficking ivory to meet demand in Asia. During the late 2000s and early ...

In the midst of the latest fossil fuels crisis, consumers are rapidly turning to heat pumps to keep costs stable and decarbonise their homes, with recent data from the European Heat Pump Association ...

Fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) are synthetic gases, many with very high global warming potentials (GWP). They are widely used as refrigerants in air-conditioning, refrigeration and heat pumps ...

Would you feel comfortable feeding your family with food wrapped in plastic made from uncontrolled waste streams? Do we really want children’s toys or baby bottles made from recycled plastic whose ...

China’s legal domestic market for pangolin medicine products is a key driver of the global illegal trade and poaching of pangolins, a new EIA briefing demonstrates. A View from the Courts – The ...

Despite making public commitments to ‘no deforestation’, some of the world’s largest companies have been buying palm oil from a notorious plantation area in Indonesia which has experienced extensive ...