Environmental Investigation Agency
Budget
€7,560,210
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
27
9.4 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) investigates and campaigns against environmental crime and abuse. Our undercover investigations expose transnational wildlife crime, with a focus on elephants and tigers and forest crimes such as illegal logging and deforestation for cash crops such as palm oil. We work to safeguard global marine ecosystems by addressing the threats posed by plastic pollution, bycatch and commercial exploitation of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Finally, we reduce the impact of climate change by campaigning to eliminate powerful refrigerant greenhouse gases, exposing related illicit trade and improving energy efficiency in the cooling sector. We use our findings in hard-hitting reports to campaign for new legislation, improved governance and more effective enforcement. Our field experience is used to provide guidance to enforcement agencies and we form partnerships with local groups and activists and support their work through hands-on training.
EU Legislative Interests
Circular economy package and Plastic Strategy, Directive on Single Use Plastics, Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Ports Reception Facilities Directive, Regulation on the conservation of fishery resources and the protection of marine ecosystems, EU Timber Regulation, FLEGT, refit Habitats Directive, EU Action Plan for Deforestation, EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking, EU continent wide strategic approaches for wildlife conservation and EU internal security strategy, EU Directive on protection of the environment through criminal law, regulation on fluorinated greenhouse gases. regulation on methane. EU Waste Shipment Regulation, EU Methane Regulation, EU Deforestation Regulation
Communication Activities
Implementation of F-Gas Regulation, EU Plastic Strategy, Directive on Single Use Plastics, EU Timber Regulation, EU position related to International Whaling Commission (IWC) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna & Flora (CITES), EU Deforestation Regulation, EU Environmental Crime Regulation, EU Methane Regulation
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
EIA is a member of the Species Survival Network (SSN), UK LINK whales and marine groups, CAN-Europe, Ecosystems Climate Alliance, the Forest Legality Alliance, EEB Waste Working Group, Seas at Risk, Break Free From Plastics and a number of marine litter coalitions. There are too many informal NGO relationships to detail, but EIA works or has worked in close proximity with many environmental charities.
Organisation Members
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, Forest Movement Europe (FME)
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.