If enacted, the updated FOREST Act would prohibit agricultural imports produced on illegally deforested land while creating new avenues for the U.S. to support producing countries to address deforestation.
The Global Cooling Pledge was launched today at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, bringing a much needed focus on the climate impacts of the cooling sector.
A report finds that 11 nations have at least some fisheries that fail to meet U.S. standards for preventing whale and dolphin bycatch, suggesting that at least some fisheries within these countries should be subject to import bans under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) upheld the trade suspension on a threatened species of rosewood found in West Africa at the 77th Meeting of the Standing Committee.
147 Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury gathered in Geneva for the fifth Conference of the Parties (COP-5) and adopted a 2025 treaty phase-out date for mercury-added cosmetics. COP-5 decisions also seek to address the manufacture and trade in mercury compounds and mercury-added cosmetics.
According to EIA’s findings, over 1.2 million doors sold since 2018 are at high risk for containing illegally sourced okoume wood from Equatorial Guinea. The supply chain for these doors leads to and benefits the oppressive and corrupt regime of President Teodoro Obiang, whose government has one of the worst corruption and human rights records in the world.