The UN Environment Programme has confirmed a deeply concerning truth for the entire planet in its new Limiting Overshoot report – going beyond the 1.5°C temperature goal established by the Paris Agreement is now “unavoidable”. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, driven by our burning of fossil fuels and emissions of super pollutant […]
In our landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, EIA was the first to analyse the combined impact of multiple environmental crime types and the coordinated global response they demanded. Some 18 years later, that call for urgent action has gone substantially unheeded. In our new report Crimes that Affect the […]
Climate change is too often viewed as something remote, with its impacts felt in other places, by other people less fortunate. The following quote popularised on social media has never felt more applicable – “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where […]
Working on fisheries bycatch can be a pretty gruesome task. Bycatch is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins and porpoises (collectively known as cetaceans) as well as countless other protected species every year – and entanglement in fishing gear is deeply traumatic for every individual experiencing it. Once an animal […]
When most people think about plastic pollution, they think about littered beaches, entangled wildlife and overflowing landfills in faraway places. The reality is that the plastics crisis doesn’t begin (or end) with these visible impacts, it starts much earlier with the extraction of fossil fuels and the production of the plastics themselves, where toxic emissions […]
A new two-part investigation by The Guardian, found here in part one and part two, has exposed the hidden consequences of the UK’s plastic waste exports to Türkiye. The investigation was informed by EIA analysis and traced thousands of tonnes of UK plastic waste sent for recycling in Adana, Türkiye, revealing how exported plastic is […]