For more than three decades, the Multilateral Fund (MLF) has played a crucial role in protecting the ozone layer and mitigating climate change. Now, members of the Executive Committee (ExCom) have an opportunity to super-charge the fund’s climate benefit and explore innovative ways to support the just and sustainable transition to climate and environmentally friendly cooling solutions.
EIA, Green America, and YouthPower Climate Action surveyed more than two dozen supermarkets in Northern California and found at least half of the stores were leaking climate-polluting refrigerants. This is the third Leaking Havoc investigation in a new geographic region, showing the widespread nature of this issue.
Cumulative HFC-23 emissions since the adoption of the Kigali Amendment in 2016 are almost 106,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.56 billion tonnes of CO2.1 A strong response from the Parties to the Montreal Protocol is required.
La Agencia de Investigación Ambiental basándose en informes existentes y llevando a cabo por varios años una investigación de campo sin precedentes, logra conectar puntos entre la tala ilegal y las violaciones de los derechos humanos denunciadas en la Amazonia ecuatoriana y peruana, la insuficiente diligencia debida por parte de los principales fabricantes mundiales de palas eólicas y los más grandes proveedores mundiales de energía.
EIA built upon existing reporting and conducted an unprecedented multi-year ground-truthing investigation that connects the dots between the illegal logging and human rights violations reported in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon, the insufficient due diligence by world leading wind blade manufacturers, and global energy provider giants.
One question that the Montreal Protocol has never addressed is how to manage and ultimately dispose of controlled substances at end-of-life. In this briefing, EIA provides an overview of carbon trading and offsets as they relate to ODS and HFC management and destruction.