The UK’s plastic problem doesn’t stop at our shores. For years, the UK has been part of a global trade system that enables us ...

The joint letter to Emma Reynolds MP – sent ahead of the launch of the Government’s new Circular Economy Strategy – warns ...

The announcement yesterday (21 October) comes after the EU granted a 12-month delay in 2024. After last year’s deferral, ...

At the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in 2022, the world celebrated as resolution 5/14 was adopted, convening an intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) to ...

It’s almost 100 years since Thomas Midgley Jr. first synthesised chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). It was 1928 and he was working for General Motors, looking for a safe refrigerant to avoid using flammable ...

The final round of talks in pursuit of a Global Plastics Treaty is due to get under way in Geneva shortly and there’s everything still to play for. But as ambitious countries and civil society ...

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 ...

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), established in 2004, is one of the world’s best-known palm oil certification schemes. The RSPO has continued to come in for criticism, including the long ...

Art for Conservation: An auction in aid of EIA, where art meets our love for the natural world. From original paintings to drawings and photographs, explore and bid on an exciting array of nature and ...

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 ...

African elephant populations across the continent have experienced an alarming decline in the past 50 years, as highlighted in a paper published in November 2024. African forest elephants have been ...