Now in its 31st year, the Montreal Protocol has worked to phase out the use of harmful ozone-depleting substances, including chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), which had created a massive…
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When most people think of climate change, the energy used by their air-conditioner or the gases used in the fridges at their local supermarkets aren’t normally the first things to…
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EIA and Greenpeace are pleased to relaunch our updated Cool Technologies database. Cool Technologies is an easy-to-use, routinely updated, searchable database of sustainable cooling and refrigeration from around the globe.…
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The Spanish refrigeration body Asociación de Empresas de Frío y sus Tecnologías (AEFYT) has called on the country’s Government to help it continue using climate-harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Such a move…
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MONTREAL: Global efforts to dramatically reduce super greenhouse gases in the fight against climate change saw a major advance today as the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol got the…
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A new survey conducted in France, Germany and the UK to assess readiness for the phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) has concluded that a startling 40 per cent of retail…
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Global efforts to reduce super greenhouse gases took a step forward with the announcement this week by the UK Government that it had begun the ratification process for the Kigali…
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As summer finally arrives in the UK and London temperatures reach a sticky 27°C, EIA yesterday released a report quizzing Europe’s supermarkets on the climate impacts of their refrigeration. Supermarket…
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Use of climate-friendly tech rising – but some supermarkets in for a nasty surprise in 2018 LONDON: The adoption of climate-friendly cooling technology is on the rise in Europe…
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Consumer group’s HFC phase-down plan is a boost to Montreal Protocol talks As the world’s governments gather in Kigali, Rwanda, next week (October 10-14) to negotiate a global agreement…
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Sign up nowClimate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action
Thousands of schoolchildren and young people in the UK are taking part in climate strikes with the support of a former UN climate chief, who said it was “time to heed the deeply moving voice of youth”.
Christiana Figueres, who led the historic 2015 Paris agreement, said the fact that children were so worried about their future they were prepared to strike should make adults take urgent action.
Source: www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/uk-climate-change-strike-school-pupils-children-envir...
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Today is World Pangolin Day, a chance to celebrate one of the natural world's most curious creatures - and to spread awareness of the dire threats it faces as the world's most trafficked mammal.
Find out about the work of our Pangolin Campaign at eia-international.org/our-work/wildlife/pangolins/
23 hours ago ·
Record number of blue whales in Great Australian Bight this summer
Scientists estimate that there are up to 50 blue whales in the Great Australian Bight this summer, the highest number seen since blue whale aerial surveys began in the region.
But it is a fluke researchers know this at all as funding for aerial surveys has been difficult to come by.
This year, blue whales have only been seen in the Bight because they crossed paths with another animal that feeds in the Bight's bountiful summer waters — southern bluefin tuna ...
Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-14/blue-whales-in-record-numbers-in-great-australian-bight/10786692
#Australia #whales #tuna
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