UK yacht firm fined for Myanmar ‘blood’ teak

A UK luxury yacht firm first exposed by EIA in 2018 has been handed stiff penalties for using ‘blood’ teak from Myanmar on some of its vessels. A crown court judge imposed fines and costs totalling £358,759.64 on Sunseeker International for 11 specific imports. EIA Forests Campaign Leader Faith Doherty said: “These sentences send a clear and unequivocal message to other luxury yacht manufacturers that using blood teak from conflict-torn Myanmar is totally unacceptable and will cost them dearly.”

Harmful refrigerants were everywhere at CoP29

EIA campaigners have looked into the systems used to keep participants cool at the 29th annual UN Climate Change Conference (CoP29) - and for the third year in a row, found that they are heavily reliant on potent climate-wrecking refrigerant gases.