Tag cloud | Search results (85)added 8 September, 2010 « A new way to measure atmospheric gases could track down sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of Earth's ozone layer, European researchers say. » added 7 September, 2010 « The ministerial meeting on climate finance that took place in Geneva last week focused on the new climate fund. On the side of the meeting, six European countries detailed their... » added 12 August, 2010 « To cut down carbon and promote energy efficiency for a green economy by 2020, Bhutan will gradually stop using appliances that produce an ozone depleting substance (ODS), called hydro-chlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) starting 2013. » added 3 August, 2010 « Last October, on the eve of the Copenhagen talks, Richard Levangie pointed out that climate change isn’t only about carbon dioxide. Doing more to reduce non-CO2 climate change contributors, Levangie reported, “might head global warming... » added 28 July, 2010 « Some herald it as the end of climate-damaging HFCs; others warn of the 'green' substitute's toxicity » added 27 July, 2010 « UNITED NATIONS -- Starting today, the members of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) sit down to tackle arguably the most serious controversy since the beginning of the Kyoto Protocol system for offsetting greenhouse gas e... » added 23 July, 2010 « The majority of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offset credits issued to date are bogus, according to new research on industrial gas destruction projects. » added 9 July, 2010 « A small group of policy-makers meeting in Montreal this week will decide if up to nine billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions (Gt CO2e) will be prevented by accelerating the phase-out of refrigerant gases called HCFCs as agreed in 200... » added 9 July, 2010 « Geneva, 15–18 June 2010 » added 6 July, 2010 « Presented at the 30th Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Geneva, 15-18 June 2010 Canada, Mexico and the United States of America » added 5 July, 2010 « The United Nations has issued the Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 assessing progress towards their achievement. In relation to climate change, the progress report draws... » added 2 July, 2010 « Indonesia's State Environment Report blames HCFCs for the alarming thinning of the ozone layer above the country. » added 21 June, 2010 « This briefing was prepared by the EIA to assist Parties in understanding the multiple issues being addressed at the 30th meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (Geneva, June 2010) and their importance in re... » added 17 June, 2010 « The UK Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is asking 10 major UK companies to set an example and cease trade with HFC-23 carbon credits that have become “perverse&rdq... » added 17 June, 2010 « BeyondHFCs presented its analysis of the latest TEAP report at the 30th Open Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol that is being held in Geneva this week. ... » added 17 June, 2010 « This is the presentation of BeyondHFCs at the 30th Open Ended Working Group of Parties to the Montreal Protocol in June 2010. BeyondHFCs presented its analysis of the latest TEAP report. The campaign raises a number of issues where the report... » added 16 June, 2010 « BeyondHFCs is attending the 30th Open Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol this week and holds a side event on Thursday this week in order to present our ... » added 16 June, 2010 « Clean Development Mechanism carbon offset scheme faces fresh criticism over dubious emission reduction projects » added 16 June, 2010 « BeyondHFCs welcomes the latest report issued by the Technical and Economic Assessment Panel in May 2010 providing the signatories of the Montreal Protocol with its latest assessment of HCFCS and environmentally sound alternatives.
... » added 15 June, 2010 « UNITED NATIONS -- A broad coalition of activists are charging that as much as a third of all Kyoto Protocol carbon offset credits ever sold to banks and governments could be illegitimate because they were generated by firms manipulating the market... » added 11 June, 2010 « BeyondHFCs will participate in the 30th Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Geneva and use the occasion to present the campaign's progress as wel... » added 10 June, 2010 « A new report highlights the need for urgent action in the EU to tap HFC emissions: By 2030, HFC emissions from the cooling sector are projected to increase by more than 50% com... » added 8 June, 2010 « In what is the first Clean Development Mechanism project in the Philippines that has the government acting as coordinating entity, about 375 chillers used in industrial, commerc... » added 7 June, 2010 « After having closed down all its production plants for CFCs much ahead of the schedule of the Montreal Protocol, , the world’s largest producer of Ozone Depleting Substances ( ODS) , China, has enacted today the Regulations on the Administra... » added 2 June, 2010 « Margaret Aanyu, environment impact assessment officer and Ozone officer at NEMA says more than 50% of the refrigeration and air-condition equipment imported into Uganda is faulty. “These old pieces of equipment are the main source of leakage... » added 3 June, 2010 « In its first major Climate Action Report to the United Nations, the US projects that national greenhouse gases will grow by 4% by 2020. A large portion of the growth is driven b... » added 22 April, 2010 « Paris, France, 22 April 2010, Earth Day -- As the curtain is now fully raised on the world stage in which ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons are no longer produced, three journalists have received top honours from the United Na... » added 22 April, 2010 « Policies to enable developing countries to eventually eliminate their consumption of HCFCs in cooling and heating equipment and prioritise low-GWP technologies like natural refr... » added 18 February, 2010 « The Maldives have announced to phase out HCFCs by 2020. An initiative in line with the island nation’s endeavour to become the first carbon neutral country. » added 4 February, 2010 « A recently published study shows that HFC-23 controlled by the Kyoto Protocol still grows strongly. This fuels the argument that Kyoto is a failure and strengthens the need to p... » added 2 February, 2010 « The Voluntary Carbon Standard Association (VCSA) announced today that the scope of the VCS Program has been extended to include ozone‐ depleting substances (ODS). » added 27 January, 2010 « The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting award nominations by March 1, 2010, for individuals, teams and organizations that have made significant contributions to ozone layer protection. » added 25 January, 2010 « Accra, Jan. 22, GNA - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday informed the public of a ban on the importation of ozone depleting chemical substances into the country from January 1, 2010. » added 6 January, 2010 « The Report of the Twenty-first Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol has been posted on the Ozone Secretariat website in all six United Nations languages at the following link: http://www.unep.ch/ozone/highlights.shtml » added 17 December, 2009 « COPENHAGEN, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As Ministers meet in Copenhagen desperately seeking to find a set of meaningful mitigation actions, negotiators have provided the ray of hope in the form of a draft agreement to work with the Montreal... » added 17 December, 2009 « Learn more and Nominate an Ozone Layer Protection Champion by visiting this website. » added 17.12.2009source: YouTubeGreenfreeze and SolarChill added 17 December, 2009 « A video on the Greenfreeze domestic refrigerators and SolarChill vaccine cooler, both which replace CFCs or HFCs by natural refrigerants. Both have links to the climate dimension of the M... » added 25 November, 2009 « Latest figures, published on 23 November 2009 in the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) 2008 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, confirm the continued trend of rising atmospheric burdens of greenhouse gases since 1750. Concentrations of gases su... » added 17 November, 2009 « EIA’s analysis of proposed HFC phase-down schedules reveals the need for a much higher level of ambition from both developed and developing countries if dangerous global warming tipping points are to be averted in the near future. EIA calls ... » added 10 November, 2009 « The historic goodwill of the Montreal Protocol to regulate swiftly and smoothly potent global warming gases in addition to ozone depleters was left unexploited by the Parties at... » added 5 November, 2009 « In the morning, delegates exchanged views on the proposals to amend the Montreal Protocol to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). During the afternoon, delegates discussed issues related to the Multilateral Fund (MLF), a proposal on institutional... » added 6 November, 2009 « COUNTRIES NEED to take “immediate action” to prevent enormous banks of chemicals being released into the atmosphere, with damage equivalent to 20 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), according to a report published today. » added 5 November, 2009 « The fight is on to replace ozone-damaging chemicals with safer replacements. Chemicals from air-conditioning units and refrigerators in daily use throughout Asia could tip the world into catastrophic climate change unless we change our ways soon, ... » added 5 November, 2009 « The new Greenpeace report Business as Usual describes "five maximum points of danger" in the House and Senate climate bills. One of these pools of potential offsets are hydrofluorocarbons. » added 5 November, 2009 « Using the momentum around the ozone treaty meeting in Egypt this week, THENATURALVOICE side event aimed at explaining to policy makers that the refrigeration, heating and coolin... » added 4 November, 2009 « It has become increasingly clear that a fully-worked out climate treaty will not emerge from Copenhagen in December. However, one should not be surprised if the ozone treaty neg... » added 3 November, 2009 « BeyondHFCs has issued a position paper maintaining that the North American proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol is not an environmentally viable option. The position comes as... » added 3 November, 2009 « This week's 21st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol will bring together several industry initiatives confirming the timely opportunity to leapfrog climate burdening... » added 26 October, 2009 « The two days event on natural refrigerants held in Brussels brought lively discussions about the all dominating question of what would be needed in a concerted effort of policy, industry, and education providers to bring existing and new technolog... » added 26 October, 2009 « On 21 October, an international conference on natural refrigerants held in Brussels drew to a close. The two days event brought lively discussions about the all dominating question of what would be needed in a concerted effort of policy, industry,... » added 29 October, 2009 « Greenpeace International has issued an official position against the use of new HFCs marketed under the name of “HFOs”. BeyondHFCs fully supports the position of the... » added 26 October, 2009 « The authors discuss strategies for short-lived non-CO2 GHGs and particles, where existing agreements can be used to accomplish mitigation objectives. Fast-action strategies includes amending the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and c... » added 22 October, 2009 « This week's EU Council conclusions for the Copenhagen Climate negotiations support using the Montreal Protocol to control the use and production of f-gases. BeyondHFCs welcomes ... » added 9 October, 2009 « At the Bangkok climate talks, formally ending today, the EU emerged as favourable to the position of the US and other nations that support the control of use and production of h... » added 18 September, 2009 « WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States, Canada and Mexico have proposed using an existing international protocol to reduce emissions of potent greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigerators and air conditioners, the Stat... » added 16 September, 2009 « UNEP has developed 2 videos regarding the interlinkages between ozone layer protection and climate change. The first consists of a documentary broadcast by BBC stressing the ben... » added 25 August, 2009 « As 39 representatives of African countries gathered in Abuja, Nigeria to hold the 13th ODS Officers Network (ODSONET) joint meeting, the Environment Minister announced the count... » added 19 August, 2009 « Many cooling units – from refrigerators to air-conditioners – use HFCs, or hydrofluorocarbons. The use of these chemicals has grown significantly over the last decade as an alternative to substances that damage the ozone layer and that... » added 18 July, 2009 « Geneva – The Montreal Protocol’s role in global climate protection received a huge boost this morning on the last day of the meeting of its Open Ended Working Group. Five nations joined as co-sponsors to a joint proposal submitted by ... » added 17 July, 2009 « Geneva, 17 July 2009 – Greenpeace calls on Montreal Protocol signatories to follow the EU and Switzerland’s lead, opening the discussion to search for alternatives to phase out highly global warming gases used as refrigerants and known... » added 16 July, 2009 « 16 July 2008, Geneva--An historic meeting, bringing together experts on the ozone layer and ones on climate change has been concluded this week in Geneva, Switzerland. » added 18 July, 2009 « GENEVA, July 18, 2009 – After a week of discussions in Geneva, the 195 Parties to the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty staked out their preliminary positions for or against an aggressive climate mitigation proposal by a coalition of island Sta... » added 22 July, 2009 « Parties to the UN Montreal Protocol dealing with the phase out of ozone depleting substances were confronted with a new trend during last week’s discussions in Geneva: the... » added 15 July, 2009 « If not controlled, HFC emissions will be between 5.5-8.8 Gt CO2-eq. per year by 2050. This would represent up to 28-45% of total CO2 emissions by 2050 under a 450 ppm CO2 stabilization scenario. » added 12 June, 2009 « DuPont study says HFC emissions could erase progress » added 13 July, 2009 « Brussels/Geneva, 2009.07.13: BeyondHFCs is an international campaign calling for a global phase out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in refrigeration and air conditioning systems an... » added 10 July, 2009 « One week before the UN Workshop on Ozone Depleting Substances, G8 leaders have failed to put forward any concrete plan to meet their HFC emissions reduction claims. Much is stil... » added 8 July, 2009 « Strengthening the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer to regulate and phase-down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (“HFCs”) will provide fast-action climate mitigation to complement long-term... » added 21 June, 2009 « New Delhi, June 21: India has decided to strongly oppose the attempt by European countries to shift regulation of hydrofluorocarbons from the UN climate convention into the Montreal Protocol, arguing that the move was aimed at avoiding giving fund... » added 1 July, 2009 « Urgent action is needed to end the devastating impact of HFCs on global warming, an MP told the Commons yesterday.Clive Efford was introducing a private member’s bill on the issue of HFCs under the ten minute rule. » added 2 December, 2007 « The European Union is serious about reining in the release of gases that contribute to global warming. As of Jan. 1, 2011, air-conditioning systems for all new European-made vehicles must begin the switch to a refrigerant other than the current fo... » added 12 June, 2009 « The use of Hydrofluorocarbons in cooling systems may save the ozone layer – but it will harm the climate The Montreal Protocol, set in action in 1987, forced the phase-out of ozone-depleting gases chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and later hydroc... » added 1 July, 2009 « Fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) gases are a family of chemicals that contain fluorine. Most F-gases are very powerful greenhouse gases which contribute to global warming whe... » added 24 June, 2009 «
BEYOND HFCs: A momentum to deliver on policies addressing climate change and global warming
Fluorinated gases (HFCs) are greenhouse gases that have been used by ... » added 24 June, 2009 « A dire report on how HFCs could drive global climate change has sparked worldwide reactions among policy makers and scientists. The baseline scenario assumes that the MAC Directive will take effect in 2011, as planned. Despite the global environme... » added 24 June, 2009 « The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has chosen R744.com as a platform to reach out to the global CO2 community and invite organisations and companies to contribute case studies about commercially available alternatives to HCFC-based te... » added 29 January, 2009 « The European Commission (EC) has put forth its scenario to fight global warming ahead of Copenhagen United Nations climate talks in December 2009, with tought targets and a clear emphasis on low-carbon technologies, including alternatives to ... » added 20 January, 2009 « The US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed more stringent bans on ozone depleting refrigerants, by restricting imports and exports of refrigeration appliances containing HCFC-22 and HCFC 142b from 2010. added 7 August, 2008 « The European Commission has presented a proposal to amend current legislation on ozone-depleting substances (ODS), highlighting the interplay between both the ozone depleting and global warming effect from such substances. However, ensuring that t... » added 30 July, 2008 « CO2Technology is a highly interesting but also still poorly understood option to replace HCFCs in developing countries, reactions at an international Montreal Protocol meeting in Bangkok showed. A comprehensive report now updates on projects and o... » added 24 July, 2008 « A global move away from ozone-depleting substances towards high global warming HFCs will be disastrous for the climate, experts warned at an international meeting in Bangkok earlier this month. A decision for natural refrigerants, including CO2, i... » added 25 June, 2008 « CO2 and other natural refrigerants are viable alternatives to ozone-depleting HCFCs in developing countries, a report with contributions from experts around the world suggests. Before its official launch at an international meeting in Bangkok next... » added 10 April, 2008 « CO2-based refrigeration and heating applications feature as strong candidates to replace HCFCs worldwide and reduce ozone and climate impacts altogether, it emerged from an expert meeting organized by the European Commission in Canada. » added 24 September, 2007 « Nearly 200 countries have agreed to accelerate the phase-out of ozone-depleting and global warming HCFC gases. The UN, the International Institute of Refrigeration, and the German Environment Agency are recommending the use of natural refrigerants... » added 31 August, 2006 « Although the chemicals replacing CFCs do no have ozone-depletion effects, they significantly contribute to global warming, a new study has found. HCFCs and HFCs are estimated to add the equivalent of 3 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosph... » | | 
