Why is UK supermarket giant ASDA opting for climate-damaging air-conditioning systems?
ASDA has recently installed rooftop cooling units using a potent climate-harming refrigerant
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Déjà vu as proposal to tackle climate-harming hydrofluorocarbons falls short in critical sectors
Proposed new rules unveiled yesterday (5 April) by the European Commission to restrict climate-damaging gases fall short of what is needed
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EIA podcast – as the dust settles on CoP26, what’s next in the fight against climate change?
The UN CoP26 climate change summit threw an international focus on global warming and what needs to be done to mitigate its worst potential impacts – but was the conference a success or a failure? And what needs to happen next to avert catastrophe?
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As Europe heats up, there’s a new cool kid in town – now the EU must step up its climate change fight
In a year which has seen the real-world consequences of climate catastrophe seldom out of the headlines, the arrival of an efficient, natural refrigerant residential air-con unit on the European market couldn’t be more timely
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Illegal refrigerant gases imported into the EU inside products highlights potential scale of criminal trade
Climate-damaging refrigerant gases – hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – are illegally entering the EU inside cooling equipment, according to Dutch Customs
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It’s Europe’s most chilling crime – but it’s met with chilling inaction from Romanian authorities
Romania was revealed to be a major illegal entry point in the EU for Chinese-made, climate-harming HFC refrigerants – but more than two months later, zero enforcement action has been taken.
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