US traders skirt law to import Myanmar teak

EIA has named 12 US timber firms importing teak from Myanmar since the start of the 2021 coup in the new report Acts of Defiance II. A redacted version of the report was published in December, with the 12 named separately to US authorities. Forests Campaign Leader Faith Doherty said: “It’s no secret what’s happening and it’s not complicated – but without action, it’s no wonder US-based traders blithely continue to import Myanmar’s blood teak when they know there will be no consequences for them.”

Big Oil a threat to global plastics treaty?

Talks for a UN global plastics treaty resumed in Paris this week. In the latest episode of our 'What on Earth?' podcast, EIA Ocean experts Christina Dixon and Jacob Kean-Hammerson discuss what to expect – and the problem of the influential Big Oil lobby.