Illegal refrigerant gases still trafficked into Europe as climate emergency worsens
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, new research shows
Tag: f-gases
CoP28: UN climate summit venue in Dubai is cooled with climate-wrecking refrigerant gases
The 97,000 delegates registered in Dubai for the UN CoP28 climate summit are being kept cool in the desert heat with unsustainable, energy-inefficient cooling units containing potent climate-polluting refrigerant gases
CoP28: Global Cooling Pledge launched as 63 countries commit to cut emissions from refrigeration and air-conditioning
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
Revised EU F-gas Regulation heralds a new era of climate innovation
European policy-makers today 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.
European Parliament votes to phase out climate-harming hydrofluorocarbons by 2050
Climate campaigners at the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcome the European Parliament’s adoption today of a series of ambitious amendments to the European Commission proposal on a revised EU F-Gas Regulation, which largely rejected a last-ditch industry lobby attempt to reduce its ambition
European Parliament’s ENVI Committee agrees to phase out HFC super greenhouse gases
Today the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) voted to significantly strengthen the EU’s world-leading climate legislation related to fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases)