This chemical black market is worth hundreds of millions of euros a year in lost profits to legitimate suppliers and our ...

Methane mitigation offers one of the fastest and most cost-effective opportunities to slow near-term warming. However, the evidence shows that methane credits are a fundamentally flawed instrument.

Illegal climate-damaging refrigerant gases worth hundreds of millions of euros a year in lost profits to legitimate suppliers ...

Microplastics should be meaningfully brought back into the treaty with provisions to monitor, report, research and mitigate ...

Why the European Union and China should collaborate on plastic production controls in the Global Plastics Treaty.

The Global Plastics Treaty negotiations have reached a decisive political moment. The election of Chile’s Julio Cordano as Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) and the launch of ...

Experience from the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozonedepleting substances (ODS), and Europe’s early ambitious measures to phase out HFCs, shows that without robust policy ...

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 ...

Acting on intelligence provided by EIA, Zambian law enforcement agents raided a house in the capital Lusaka on 9 March and arrested nine Zambians, including an individual from the Democratic Republic ...

In December, I travelled to Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite outside the capital Nairobi with colleagues from EIA. We were there with a specific purpose – to understand what synthetic textile exports look ...

Has the world woken up to the threat of environmental crime? The outcome of several days of dialogue in Vienna this week raises more questions than answers. More than 100 states, represented by ...

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 ...