The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol must be ‘adjusted’ for the world to stay within 1.5°C, according to the EIA’s Tim Grabiel.
MEP Eickhout asks for more ambitious approach to f-gases than what is in the European Commission’s proposal.
The Coalition for Green Heating and Cooling sees room for improvements in the revision of the EU F-gas regulation.
The EESC Committee is also in favor of setting a 150 GWP cap across all technologies and promoting incentives schemes and public procurement for f-gas-free alternatives.
The UK Climate Change Committee urged the government to increase the ambition of HFC consumption reduction targets, publish targets and plans on heat pumps that do not use f-gases, reduce inhaler emissions and support stronger international action on reducing emissions.
*This article has been updated on August 1. Party groups in the European Parliament have appointed Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who will follow the development of the proposed EU F-gas Regulation in the coming months. Bas Eickhout, a Dutch representative from the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance (EFA), will be the rapporteur…
Refrigerants like HCFCs, HFCs and HFOs have been added to the Environmental Investigation Agency’s Global Environmental Crime Tracker, which details smuggling and trafficking hotspots.
Stricter GWP limits, product bans and compensation for environmental damage are a few of the amendments suggested by some of the continent’s leading manufacturers of natural-refrigerant-based systems.
Andreas Meier described the German OEM’s transition from f-gas to mostly CO2 systems at the ATMO World Summit.
But European Environmental Bureau contends that the proposal falls short by allowing f-gases in applications where natural refrigerants are available.
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