The European Parliament’s ENVI Committee today (June 19) scored a significant win for the climate and a boost for the European economy when it decided by an overwhelming 48 votes in favour to 19 against to strengthen the EU’s F-Gas Regulation to ban a source of super greenhouse gases in new equipment from 2020
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today welcomed the renewed commitment to phase out HFCs demonstrated by the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) at its 3rd Refrigeration Summit in London this week
Once again living up to its status as ‘world’s most effective environmental treaty’, the Montreal Protocol has struck a $385m deal with China to phase-out hydrochlorofluorocarbon production and so prevent eight billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions
The European Parliament’s rapporteur on the review of the EU’s F-Gas Regulation has submitted a report calling for widespread bans on the use of fluorinated greenhouse gases in the EU, a move that will ensure smaller businesses are prepared for future reductions in hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) available on the market
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today issued an open letter to global leaders meeting at the international climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar, urging them to act now to eliminate hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – one of six classes of greenhouse gases (GHG) controlled under the climate regime
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has reacted with disappointment to the publication of the final proposal for the European Union’s Review of the F-Gas Regulation, citing weak measures and a lack of ambition