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
As global leaders and delegates bake under the desert sun in Egypt at the UN CoP27 climate summit, the air-conditioning keeping them cool is using refrigerant gases which are highly damaging to the climate.
As the annual international conference on climate change (CoP19) draws to a close in Warsaw, the Environmental Investigation Agency criticised India and Saudi Arabia for blocking an agreement which could prevent the release of up to 100 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 2050
The 20 biggest world economies today agreed to use the resources of the Montreal Protocol to get rid of a significant group of super greenhouse gases. The EIA welcomes a landmark statement and encourages all countries to join the G20 in supporting a global phase-down of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today issued an open letter to global leaders meeting at the international climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar, urging them to act now to eliminate hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – one of six classes of greenhouse gases (GHG) controlled under the climate regime
Faced with a funding shortfall for eliminating ozone-depleting substances (ODS), the Montreal Protocol is preparing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to phase in hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – even though these substances could sabotage international efforts to halt global warming