It’s almost 100 years since Thomas Midgley Jr. first synthesised chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). It was 1928 and he was working for General Motors, looking for a safe refrigerant to avoid using flammable or toxic alternatives. General Motors and Dupont soon began producing ‘Freon’ chemicals, which quickly dominated the market for refrigerants and also found wide use […]
The protection and ongoing recovery of the ozone layer, secured through action under the Montreal Protocol, is perhaps the greatest example we have of the global community coming together to address a critical global environmental challenge. World Ozone Day (16 September) is an opportunity to celebrate this success, but also to remind ourselves that Earth’s […]
Cutting emissions of superpollutants provides an opportunity to more efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions than a focus solely on carbon dioxide. In other words, it packs a larger punch.
Sustainable cooling has received limited attention at the annual meetings under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, despite being a key tool for both climate mitigation and adaptation
Today is World Ozone Day and, like many of our colleagues around the world, we are taking this opportunity to celebrate the success of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its protocol, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. Written by 91 authors from 40 countries, with 133 contributing authors and 1,113 reviewers, is a “final call” on global warming, urging ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ in order to stay below 1.5°C