Illegal smuggling of refrigerant gases into Europe continues as the climate crisis worsens
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, EIA’s latest research shows
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Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, EIA’s latest research shows
More than two years ago, EIA unveiled our Environmental Crime Tracker, an open access online tool to help analyse and better understand wildlife and forest crime around the world. Recently, we expanded its capabilities even further with a new dashboard to help assess the prosecutions of environmental crimes
“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
The Global Cooling Pledge was launched today at the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP28) in Dubai, bringing a much-needed focus on the climate impacts of the cooling sector
European policy-makers have today (5 October) agreed a revised European Union (EU) F-gas Regulation supporting decarbonisation goals and driving innovation and green investment across a wide range of sectors, including heat pumps, the cold chain, healthcare and more.