Due to the damage done to our climate, the EU is phasing out the use of what are known as F-gases – commonly used in air-conditioning units and the refrigerators and cooling cabinets in supermarkets – to replace them with low-emissions refrigerants by 2030. But today (23 July), a major industry group in Spain representing […]
As the UK recovers from its latest record-breaking heatwave, our Climate team today published UK Cooling Policy in a Warming World, an urgent call to action for the UK Government to adopt a national cooling action plan addressing both climate adaptation and mitigation. With the UK warming faster than the global average, heatwaves are becoming […]
Just weeks after we released our report Fake, Frauds and F-gases, exposing illegal F-gas trade in Italy, the Italian Government has announced it will implement the EU Environmental Crime Directive. This long-awaited step will tighten penalties for those illegally producing, importing or placing fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) on the market. HFCs […]
Climate-damaging F-gases are synthetic substances widely used in refrigeration, air-conditioning and elsewhere. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are the most common and are so harmful that they are to be phased down under the Montreal Protocol and phased out altogether in the EU. However, the chemical industry is pushing to replace them with a new generation of lucrative […]
EIA Climate campaigners today (6 December) accused US chemical giant Chemours of peddling spurious claims and disinformation to prevent the adoption of ambitious EU climate legislation that will further restrict the use of fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases), a prominent part of the company’s portfolio.
More than a year after EIA first exposed Europe’s illegal multi-million euro trade in climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), we are calling for an investigation into the growing black market in greenhouses gases