As the nations of the world prepare to meet next week at the open ended working group of the Montreal Protocol in Bangkok, Thailand, Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to travel to India for the fourth U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue. Sec. Kerry should seize the overlap of these important meetings to urge the Indian government […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue kicks off this week, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) applauds both governments for putting hydroflourocarbons (HFCs) on the agenda. HFCs are super greenhouse gases used primarily in refrigeration, air conditioners and foams with the global warming potential 1,000 to 3,000 times that of carbon […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – US President Obama and Chinese President XI have agreed to work together to combat climate change by curbing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – super greenhouse gases with global warming potential hundreds and thousands times higher than carbon dioxide (CO2). The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an international campaigning organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Presidents of the two countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world meet, today and tomorrow, under immense global scrutiny, EIA urges them to take the single most, cost-effective mitigation available today which is to phase-down the production and use of HFCs (hydrofluorocarbon). Although, both countries announced a […]
Parties to the UNFCCC are currently discussing initiatives to address the pre-2020 ambition gap under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP). One initiative being discussed is the phase-down of the “super greenhouse gases” HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) under the Montreal Protocol. By using the Montreal Protocol to remove one of […]
