Reflections on Paris + 10
Ten years ago, on 12 December 2015, 195 governments adopted the Paris Agreement at the 21st UN Climate Change Conference (CoP21). A decade on, it is time for both reflection and renewal.
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Tag: montreal-protocol
An urgent need to reduce emissions – our report on the 37th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol
Last week, our Climate team joined more than 600 delegates for the 37th Meeting of the Parties (MoP37) to the Montreal Protocol in Nairobi from 3-7 November 2025. EIA produced a briefing on the key substantive issues on the busy agenda, outlining the multiple opportunities to maximise greenhouse gas emissions reductions and enhance the recovery […]
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Four before Forty – four challenges for the Montreal Protocol on World Ozone Day 2025
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 […]
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New House of Lords report urges UK Government action on nitrogen within the next two years
EIA is pleased to welcome the new UK House of Lords report Nitrogen: Time to Reduce, Recycle, Reuse (published 24 July 2025). This timely and thorough examination by the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee brings long-overdue attention to the pervasive and multi-dimensional threat of nitrogen pollution and makes the case for a […]
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Fit for 40? Celebrating the Vienna Convention and facing the challenges threatening its legacy
Saturday (22 March) is the 40-year anniversary of the signing of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, an achievement which has stood for four decades as an inspiration for multilateral environmental action. The Vienna Convention was established in response to scientific evidence that man-made chemicals, particularly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), were causing significant […]
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Climate-wrecking refrigerants are everywhere at CoP29, cooling the venue while warming the planet
As we approach the end of another year defined by record-breaking global temperatures and deadly natural disasters, turbo-charged by the escalating climate crisis, some 50,000 people have descended on Baku in Azerbaijan for the 29th annual UN Climate Change Conference (CoP29). For the third year in a row, EIA has looked into the systems being […]
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