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 ...

Since our formation in 1984, EIA has pioneered the use of undercover investigations as a vital means to combat environmental crime and abuse. Our innovative approach aims to secure long-lasting change ...

The Montreal Protocol was created in 1987 to regulate the chemicals responsible for ozone depletion. Widely hailed as the world’s most successful international environmental treaty, it has phased out ...

Illegal wildlife trade is one of the most lucrative forms of transnational organised crime, generating billions in profits every year. Iconic species such as elephants, pangolins and tigers continue ...

Despite signing up to global initiatives seeking to protect wild tigers and double their number by 2022, Government departments in China have quietly set about stimulating domestic markets for tiger ...

Despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century, far beyond the universally recognised ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today published its AR6 Synthesis Report, making plain the urgent need to address the escalating climate crisis. The report, finalised last week in ...

EIA research reveals that at least 24 Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been listing leopard bones as an ingredient in their traditional medicines, although there are fewer than 450 wild leopards ...

In March 2020, we reported how the Indonesian Government had issued Ministry of Trade Regulation 15/2020, a move which would have drastically undermined the credibility of its legal timber product ...

A new EIA UK investigation has found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products Manufactured by 72 Chinese ...

Corrupt Government officials and military personnel in Vietnam are complicit in smuggling huge quantities of illegal timber from Cambodia. Those involved are pocketing millions of dollars in bribes ...