Tag cloud | Latest studiesadded 21 December, 2011 « Four non-governmental organisations, namely the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Greenpeace European Unit, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), urge the European Commission in their joint position... » added 1 December, 2011 « The current contribution to climate forcing by HFCs is less than one per cent. However, HFCs are rapidly increasing in the atmosphere as they are adopted as ozone-friendly alternatives. Emissions of HFCs are growing at a rate of 8% per year, and b... » added 25 November, 2011 « Position of the Environmental Investigation Agency ahead of the 23rd Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. » added 22 November, 2011 « The activities of the Montreal Protocol must be placed within the larger context of the rapidly changing global climate. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) ranked 2010, along with 1998 and 2005, as one of the warmest years on record.i At ... » added 21 November, 2011 « Greenpeace opposes HFOs, the fourth generation of F-gases mainly for these four reasons:
• HFOs present an unnecessary risk to the environment and human health
• HFOs are only a short-term fix
• Natural refri... » added 24 August, 2011 « Western European emission inventories of HFC‐23 are validated at a country level...For the study region the authors derive emissions of 144–216 Mg/yr for July 2008–July 2010, which are 60–140% higher than the official emiss... » added 23 August, 2011 « Changes in the relative weights placed on different greenhouse gases would affect the timing and extent of CO2 and non-CO2 mitigation action at national, regional and global levels. This applies particularly to CH4 and N2O&nb... » added 2 August, 2011 « This is the Environmental Investigation Agency's (EIA) report to the 31st Meeting of the Open Ended Working Group. » added 29 June, 2011 « For what reasons is HFO1234yf being criticized? HFO-1234yf (here after HFO) decomposes in the environment to form trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). In turn, TFA is an extremely persistent substance that accumulates in nature without decomposing. It is w... » added 13 May, 2011 « A panel of some of the world's leading climate and glacier scientists co-chaired by a Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researcher have issued a report commissioned by the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences citing the moral i... » | | 
