Protecting the environment with intelligence
UK broadcasts of new films going undercover with campaign group LONDON: The risky undercover work of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is showcased in three new films to be broadcast in the UK on Nat Geo Wild from Thursday, December 15. A year in the making, the films follow EIA through countries as [...]
December has arrived and with it, for millions around the world, comes the annual wallet-slimming slog of Christmas shopping. Given the ailing state of many economies, a lot of people will be feeling the pinch this year and wondering how they’re going to manage to find meaningful gifts for loved ones which won’t break the [...]
UNFCCC CDM approves further payments to HFC producers DURBAN: As United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiators meet in Durban, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on all Parties to reject HFC-23 carbon credits following widespread evidence and acknowledgement that most of the credits do not represent real emission reductions. Last [...]
THREE new films taking viewers undercover with EIA’s intrepid investigators as they work at the sharp end of environmental crime will be screened in the UK on Nat Geo Wild from December 15. The documentaries were a year in the making and chronicle separate investigations into whaling, illegal logging and the ivory trade, following clues [...]
When not overseeing EIA’s library of somewhere in the region of 30,000 images and about 5,000 mini DV tapes of footage (which equates to about 300,000 hours of footage), or keeping tabs on all the various undercover cameras and other pieces of kit, I sometimes get the chance to indulge a more creative side. I [...]
DENPASAR, BALI: Despite a call from 108 countries for the Montreal Protocol to pursue a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), political manoeuvring in advance of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate negotiations have prevented any action or formal discussion on how the potent class of greenhouse gases (GHG) could be eliminated. India, [...]