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 […]
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 […]
According to the organisers, this summer’s Olympics, due to kick off in Paris later this month, will be the “greenest ever games”.
“While the final text has dropped explicit reference to a fossil fuel phase-out, which was included in previous text versions, the message remains that a fossil fuel phase-out is inevitable.”
Some 97,000 people are in Dubai for the UN CoP28 climate summit – and EIA can reveal they are being kept cool with unsustainable, energy-inefficient cooling units containing potent climate-polluting refrigerant gases