EIA’s report Cooling the Climate Crisis analysed the climate impact of supermarket refrigeration and revealed that up to 70 per cent of a supermarket’s emissions stem from cooling. Our Climate campaigners have been directly engaging with the retail sector since 2009 to make it aware of the serious impacts of using climate-harming refrigeration while simultaneously […]
To mark UK Heat Pump Week, EIA Climate Campaigner Adam Aucock shares his experience of getting a climate-friendly natural refrigerant heat pump installed in his home. Within a few months of my recent house move, a major leak in our hot water system left us with some very wet carpets and in need of […]
As many parts of the UK swelter under the latest heatwave of the summer, interest in ways to keep cool is skyrocketing. There has been significant media interest on the relationship between heatwaves and climate change, as well as possible solutions to our overheating problem, particularly whether we should be encouraging the use of air-conditioning […]
International supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize appears to be lagging behind when it comes to phasing out climate-harming refrigeration – even though CEO Frans Muller was until just days ago the co-chair of the influential Consumer Goods Forum, which is committed to speeding up the transition to natural refrigerants. Ahold Delhaize, which operates more than 7,700 […]
Today, EIA and a group of European NGOs have written to the European Commission to urge it to support the roll-out of best-in-class natural refrigerant heat pumps. The initiative would be paid for from funding allocated to support those most at risk from the costs associated with the upcoming inclusion of fossil fuels for heating […]
On 26 February, the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) published the “Seventh Carbon Budget – Advice for the UK government”, an almost 400 page document outlining recommended legally binding milestones to set the UK’s pathway to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.