Tag: shipping

Recently, EIA attended the Ship Design and Construction Sub-Committee (SDC 9) meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London. The IMO is where countries meet to agree on regulatory frameworks to, among other things, minimize the environmental impacts of shipping. EIA has been participating in IMO meetings for nearly eight years. We worked together […]

CACHÉ EN PLEINE VUE: COMMENT L’ASSOCIATION DES CHINOIS D’OUTRE-MER AU GABON SERT DE COUVERTURE AUX CRIMES FORESTIERS Série Intelligence Brute – n ° 5 Association des Chinois d’Outre-Mer au Gabon Certains criminels et leurs acolytes se cachent derrière l’anonymat et le secret. D’autres, comme M. Pierre Lu, ont choisi de se cacher en pleine vue, […]

Follow EIA’s Wildlife Campaign at the 18th meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties as our campaigners work to ensure protections for some of the world’s most at-risk wildlife populations. August 17, 2019 Deputy Director of Forest Campaigns Susanne Breitkopf gives an update on EIA’s forest priorities on Day 1 of CITES Cop18. August […]

Most Americans will never visit Bristol Bay, Alaska; still, they have a major stake in its environmental health. In 2018 alone, fishermen in Bristol Bay harvested 41.3 million sockeye salmon, the largest amount on record. Even more remarkable, especially in an age of overfished or collapsing fishing stocks, the 2018 harvest was sustainable. Another 21 […]

Last week, the United States announced it will block timber imports from Peruvian exporter Inversiones La Oroza for up to three years, due to massive amounts of illegal wood in one of their shipments. This historic action follows a verification conducted last year under the Forest Annex of the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, which found […]

By Dan Hubbell, EIA Policy Analyst Canada has one of the longest coastlines in the world, touching the Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic Oceans. Yet in spite of the vast breadth of its waters and the remarkable biodiversity within them, Canada has protected just one percent of its waters with marine protected areas (MPAs). Moreover, industrial […]