The unexpected rise in emissions of CFC-11 was top of the agenda at the 40th Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) to the Montreal Protocol in Vienna. Tina Birmpili of the Ozone Secretariat said it was “critical to take stock of the science and take action” and urged parties to “not relax their vigilance for a second”
Our Climate team is at the 40th Open Ended Working Group to the Montreal Protocol in Vienna, Austria, to press for action on illegal CFCs in China, climate-friendly energy efficiency and other issues – the ongoing, widespread use of CFC-11 in China is a major compliance issue and an environmental crime on a grand scale
We will be in Vienna this week, attending the 7th Conference of the State Parties (CoSP7) to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), the only legally binding global anti-corruption instrument.
The stakes are high as the Montreal Protocol prepares for a series of meetings to agree a global phase-down of climate-harming hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), the first major test of the Paris Climate Agreement and the global commitment “to pursue efforts to limit the [average global] temperature increase to 1.5° Celsius”