EIA investigators found that commercial use of tiger bone sourced from captive-bred tigers for manufacturing products, such as wine, appears to continue in China. We urge that laws and policies are amended to end all trade, in all parts and products of tigers and other Asian big cats, from all sources
A briefing to the 19th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting from 11-22 November 2013 in Warsaw, Poland, arguing that swift, effective and large reductions in greenhouse gases must start now
This report reveals that despite adopting polices to keep it from financing deforestation, the UK bank HSBC is nevertheless a leading financier of the palm oil industry – and provides loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars to some of its worst elements
More than a million whales, dolphins and porpoises have been slaughtered off Japan in the past 70 years and new analysis indicates these unsustainable hunts are on track to wipe out key species in Japan’s coastal waters
In a year that has seen concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide pass the 400ppm mark and the world’s scientific community issue its starkest warning yet that human activities will result in far-reaching disruption of the climate system, the need to swiftly rein in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions is acute
A new wave of technology is spurring a European refrigeration revolution, slashing energy usage and eliminating the need for harmful chemicals. This report shows supermarket chains throughout the EU are moving away from traditional hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) towards natural refrigerants, reaping benefits in the process