EIA podcast – Busting the myths spread by Big Chemical to keep climate-wrecking refrigerants in play
Climate-damaging F-gases are synthetic substances widely used in refrigeration, air-conditioning and elsewhere.
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are the most common and are so harmful that they are to be phased down under the Montreal Protocol and phased out altogether in the EU.
However, the chemical industry is pushing to replace them with a new generation of lucrative products which, although easier on global warming, also come with their own environmental and health concerns …
Podcast – What on Earth?
Busting the myths spread by Big Chemical to keep climate-wrecking refrigerants in play
Welcome back to the EIA What on Earth? podcast.
In this episode, EIA Climate Campaigner Adam Aucock, the author of our new briefing Refrigerant Myth Busting, debunks some of the misinformation spread by Big Chemical to support its own harmful products and sow distrust over the viability of alternative natural refrigerants.
You can read and download the briefing from our website.
Adam Aucock
Paul Newman
