Illegal refrigerant gases still trafficked into Europe as climate emergency worsens
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, new research shows
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Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, new research shows
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, EIA’s latest research shows
More than two years ago, EIA unveiled our Environmental Crime Tracker, an open access online tool to help analyse and better understand wildlife and forest crime around the world. Recently, we expanded its capabilities even further with a new dashboard to help assess the prosecutions of environmental crimes
“While the final text has dropped explicit reference to a fossil fuel phase-out, which was included in previous text versions, the message remains that a fossil fuel phase-out is inevitable.”
Some 97,000 people are in Dubai for the UN CoP28 climate summit – and EIA can reveal they are being kept cool with unsustainable, energy-inefficient cooling units containing potent climate-polluting refrigerant gases
The 97,000 delegates registered in Dubai for the UN CoP28 climate summit are being kept cool in the desert heat with unsustainable, energy-inefficient cooling units containing potent climate-polluting refrigerant gases