EIA’s latest briefing, New Trends in ODS Smuggling, highlights the growing threat of illegal trade in ozone depleting substances. Trade data analysis highlights significant discrepancies between China’s reported hydrochlorofluorocarbon-22 exports to various countries and their reported HCFC-22 imports from China
There is a crying need for countries to step up what climate policy insiders refer to as ‘mitigation ambition’, as demonstrated in a series of annual reports quantifying the Emissions Gap produced by the UN’s Environment Programme
A briefing prepared for the Bonn Climate Change Conference, from 20-25 October 2014. The Montreal Protocol has resulted in a 98 per cent drop in the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) since 1987, an immense achievement now overshadowed by looming climate threats of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
I was keen to do something tangible for the environment and EIA’s climate campaign and its focus on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) really appealed to me as it was one of the few climate issues that seemed black and white, with a solution within immediate grasp
Leading High Street retailers are being urged to do their bit for the climate by closing the door on open refrigerated display units. In our new report The Chilling Facts VI, we reveal that the take-up of climate-friendly refrigeration by supermarket chains is spreading faster and more widely than ever
Today is the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, the theme of which is Ozone Layer Protection: The Mission Goes On. Catchy or not, that title does a pretty good job of summing up where we are in terms of addressing global ozone depletion.