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EIA and NGOs Urge EU to Reject Deforestation Law Delay, Citing Global Climate and Forest Risks

PRESS RELEASE -- 16, October 2024

(IN BRIEF) More than 225 civil society organizations, including the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), are urging the European Parliament and EU governments to reject the European Commission’s proposal to delay the implementation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by 12 … Read the full press release

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA): illegal wildlife trade in Hong Kong to be included in Hong Kong’s Serious Crime Ordinance (OSCO)

PRESS RELEASE -- 19, August 2021

(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 19-Aug-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an investigator and campaigner against environmental crime and abuse, has announced that an amendment to include wildlife trafficking crime in Hong Kong’s Serious Crime Ordinance (OSCO) has just been … Read the full press release

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA): first time major bank requested RSPO investigation into one of its clients

PRESS RELEASE -- 12, July 2017

Thousands of hectares of rainforest saved after HSBC triggers investigation into its own client LONDON, 12-Jul-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Action taken by HSBC, which triggered an investigation into the subsidiary of one of its own clients in the palm oil sector, has … Read the full press release

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA): New evidence that Japan Government continues to recklessly expose its citizens to heavily polluted whale and dolphin products

PRESS RELEASE -- 2, September 2015

New analysis of toxic whale & dolphin meat shows Japan still gambling with human health LONDON, 2-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — As Japan’s annual coastal whale and dolphin hunting season began today with the aim of killing more than 15,000 marine mammals, the … Read the full press release

Environmental Investigation Agency released new briefing “Data Corruption: Exposing the true scale of logging in Myanmar”

PRESS RELEASE -- 25, March 2014

Myanmar’s six billion dollar timber corruption black hole revealed by official data LONDON, 25-3-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — New analysis of the Myanmar Government’s forestry and trade data points to a multi-billion dollar illegal logging and exports black hole – indicating widespread criminality and … Read the full press release

EIA: banning hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in supermarkets the cheapest and most effective ways to reduce greenhouse gases in Europe

PRESS RELEASE -- 25, October 2013

London, UK, 25-10-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Banning the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – super greenhouse gases used in refrigeration – in supermarkets would be one of the cheapest and most effective ways of reducing greenhouse gases in Europe. Speaking at the shecco ATMOsphere … Read the full press release