World Ozone Day 2023 – the past successes and future challenges …
Sep 15, 2023 · The ozone layer is an important part of our atmosphere, absorbing almost all of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Long-term exposure to high levels of UV-B, or any exposure to UV-C, is harmful to human health and damaging to most animals, plants and microbes. In short, the ozone layer plays a crucial role in protecting all life on ...
How to end ocean plastic pollution - EIA
As of UNEA 5.1 in February, over 70% of the world’s countries have expressed support for a new global treaty on plastic pollution. 2022. Following five years of a dedicated campaign by EIA and our partners, a mandate to negotiate a new legally binding plastics treaty was secured at the 5 th UN Environment Assembly.
Saving elephants from the ivory trade - EIA
Saving elephants is central to EIA’s work. We have a consistently successful track record that includes: Disrupting criminal networks through undercover investigations. Helping achieve a landmark ban on the ivory trade. Working to close domestic ivory markets. Exposing the global hub of the illegal ivory trade.
Saving pangolins from extinction - EIA
EIA’s Pangolin Campaign focuses on three main activities that are dedicated to saving pangolins: gathering intelligence on the illegal trade in pangolins and disrupting criminal networks. putting pressure on governments to end the trade in pangolins. raising awareness of the devastating impact of the pangolin trade.
History - EIA
A year later, Currey and Lonsdale set out for the Faroe Islands on our first official investigation to observe the p ilot w hale hunt s, the find ings of which again made a major international impact. The three founders realised that on-the-ground documentary investigation was a powerful ne w tool for effective campaigning, something that would become a …
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EIA calls on European Commission to take action on methane emissions. Methane, the second most important greenhouse gas (GHG), is responsible for a third of the global warming that has taken place so far. Over a 20 year period, it is 80+ times more effective at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2).
Fighting deforestation and illegal logging - EIA
Deforestation due to illegal logging and destructive forest conversion is directly connected to corruption and crime, cronyism, curbs on transparency and accountability, selective law enforcement, elitist land tenure and compromised judiciaries, and often involves state officials and security apparatus. A forest village.
Preventing the extinction of the vaquita - EIA
As part of our Ocean campaign, EIA is fighting to save the vaquita from extinction. Our work to save the vaquita includes: drawing on the expertise and experience of our work with cetaceans (the collective term for whales, dolphins and porpoises); carrying out undercover investigations into the illegal totoaba trade;
Sounds green to me – 10 top environmental songs - EIA
May 18, 2012 · Few things can capture the mood of a moment (or movement) quite as well as a song – think of New Labour’s 1997 victory and it’s all but impossible to divorce it from D:Ream’s now horribly ironic Things Can Only Get Better.. True, most music has other interests in mind than championing causes, but in among the welter of self-obsessive navel-gazing, hedonism and despondent odes to lost ...
HFCs: The greenhouse gas the world is finally talking about
May 15, 2015 · These proposals target HFCs – a family of super greenhouse gases hundreds to thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO 2).HFCs are one of the six gases regulated under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Despite their ostensible regulation under the Kyoto Protocol, emissions of HFCs have been growing over the past two decades ...