Our Global Environment Campaigner, Natasha Hurley, writes from the CoP17 meeting in Durban, South Africa where she reflects on the need to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), greenhouse gases used in air conditioning and refrigeration, despite these efforts being blocked by India, China and the chemical industry
Our Global Environment Campaigner, Natasha Hurley, attends the 17th International Conference on Climate Change (COP17) in Durban, South Africa and notes that with the need for countries to get into specifics on climate change mitigation, upcoming political negotiations in the high level segment will be difficult
It is important to remind yourself that progress is happening, and that things can get better. It is also important to remember what all these emissions mean and where they come from.
It’s the last day of the OEWG and time to take a step back and see what we’ve achieved. It’s surprising that the link between climate change and ozone depletion is the subject of so much controversy, given the plethora of scientific reports and assessments that have established this
Today a whopping 246 stores across Great Britain have HFC-free refrigeration systems, up from 46 last year, while hundreds of engineers have been trained to deal with climate-friendly refrigerants. The UK is now paving the way for climate-friendly refrigeration and is a global centre for innovation
EU Countries will vote on a proposed regulation to ban the use of HFC and other industrial gas credits in Europe’s carbon markets from January 2013. If successful this regulation will change the world’s largest carbon market and end subsidising of Chinese and Indian chemical companies by European consumers