EIA’s report Cooling the Climate Crisis analysed the climate impact of supermarket refrigeration and revealed that up to 70 per cent of a supermarket’s emissions stem from cooling.

Join EIA Senior Technical Services Manager Chris Buckler and Senior Press and Communications Officer Paul Newman as they ...

The joint letter to Emma Reynolds MP – sent ahead of the launch of the Government’s new Circular Economy Strategy – warns that without decisive political action, the UK will continue to fuel ...

It’s almost 100 years since Thomas Midgley Jr. first synthesised chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). It was 1928 and he was working for General Motors, looking for a safe refrigerant to avoid using flammable ...

The final round of talks in pursuit of a Global Plastics Treaty is due to get under way in Geneva shortly and there’s everything still to play for. But as ambitious countries and civil society ...

Loopholes in EU regulations appear to be driving unsustainable and fraudulent palm oil trade. EIA’s new briefing The Palm Oil Black Box – EU trade loopholes analyses EU trade patterns for palm oil and ...

Almost four decades after the 1986 global moratorium on commercial whaling put an end to the mass slaughter of whales, opposition to commercial whaling around the world is stronger than ever. Yet as ...

Fluorinated gases, or F-gases, are synthetic substances used in a range of applications such as refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump systems. However, a new generation of F-gases is being ...

In a landmark case in the UK courts, a luxury yacht firm has been handed stiff penalties for using ‘blood’ teak imported from Myanmar on some of the vessels it builds. Sunseeker International Ltd – ...

The European Union’s revised F-gas Regulation, which came into force in March 2024, will support decarbonisation goals and drive innovation and green investment across a wide range of sectors, ...

This study aims to model scenarios for how the global economy might respond to the proposed “40×40” target in the context of negotiations for a new International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) to ...