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Next week, members of the European Parliament’s ENVI Committee will be voting on possible changes to the EU’s F-Gas Regulation. The clock is ticking and time is short – we need your help to urge them to secure a big win for the climate by voting on June 19 to ban hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in new equipment [...]
Welcome to the Spring 2013 issue of EIA’s bi-annual newsletter Investigator, giving you an overview of our key campaign activities during the past six months. This issue features: • our exposé of China’s conservation double standard as it signs up to save wild tigers while simultaneously stimulating a trade in the skins and parts of [...]
LONDON: The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today welcomed the renewed commitment to phase out HFCs demonstrated by the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) at its 3rd Refrigeration Summit in London this week. The London-based campaigning NGO further called on the UK Government to support its retailers through the introduction of ambitious measures in the European Union [...]
EIA Global Environment Campaigner Natasha Hurley has spent the past week attending the Bonn Climate Conference. Watch her statement on behalf of the Climate Action Network, which was delivered at a special stakeholder event yesterday (Thursday), here: .
LONDON: Once again living up to its status as ‘world’s most effective environmental treaty’, the Montreal Protocol has struck a deal with China to phase-out hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) production and so prevent eight billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. With funding of up to US$385m from the Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund, China will eliminate its [...]
