Climate
Campaign Focus Areas
- Preventing Illegal Trade
Preventing Illegal Trade
Illegal production, use, and trade in banned or controlled ozone-depleting substances and greenhouse gases used in the cooling sector remains a critical obstacle to international efforts to limit the worst impacts of climate change.
Resources
- EIA 2018 Impact Report
EIA 2018 Impact Report
In 2018 the Environmental Investigation Agency continued to confront the greatest environmental threats facing the world today. The EIA team pursued, documented and exposed the activities of syndicates that threaten endangered species, damage the climate and ozone layer, and drive the trade in timber stolen from the world’s most important remaining forests.
- “Cool It” Campaign: Groups Take Aim At Walmart’s Massive Refrigerant Leakage Problem
“Cool It” Campaign: Groups Take Aim At Walmart’s Massive Refrigerant Leakage Problem
“Cool It” Campaign: Groups Take Aim At Walmart’s Massive Refrigerant Leakage Problem
- EIA Letter to California Air Resources Board on Proposed HFC Rulemakings
EIA Letter to California Air Resources Board on Proposed HFC Rulemakings
EIA letter to CARB with comments on important aspects of proposed HFC regulations
- Racing the Clock: California to Cut HFC Emissions in Half by 2030
Racing the Clock: California to Cut HFC Emissions in Half by 2030
Racing the Clock: California Nears Final Plan to Cut HFC Emissions in Half by 2030
- High Stakes: Implementing and strengthening climate and ozone commitments under the Montreal Protocol
High Stakes: Implementing and strengthening climate and ozone commitments under the Montreal Protocol
High Stakes: Implementing and strengthening climate and ozone commitments under the Montreal Protocol
- California Green Lights Incentive Program to Reduce HFCs
California Green Lights Incentive Program to Reduce HFCs
This week California’s legislature approved a 2019-2020 budget providing $1 million to create an incentive program for reducing emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases, including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Established by the California Cooling Act (SB1013) passed last year, the program will incentivize adoption of climate-friendly refrigerant technologies, with a mandate to also consider other co-benefits such as energy efficiency and opportunities for increasing recovery, reclamation, and destruction of refrigerants at end-of-life.
- New Atmospheric Study Pinpoints Large-scale CFC-11 Emissions in Eastern China
New Atmospheric Study Pinpoints Large-scale CFC-11 Emissions in Eastern China
New Atmospheric Study Pinpoints Large-scale CFC-11 Emissions in Eastern China
- Supermarkets Leading the Way in Eliminating Super-Pollutant HFCs
Supermarkets Leading the Way in Eliminating Super-Pollutant HFCs
Supermarkets Leading the Way in Eliminating Super-Pollutant HFCs
- Search, Reuse, and Destroy: How States Can Take the Lead on a 100 Billion Ton Climate Problem
Search, Reuse, and Destroy: How States Can Take the Lead on a 100 Billion Ton Climate Problem
Preventing emissions of fluorinated refrigerants such as HFCs from “F-gas banks” is the single biggest near-term strategy to reduce greenhouse gases. The IPCC special report on limiting global warming to within 1.5˚C also underlined need for faster and deeper HFC emission reductions beyond those anticipated under full implementation of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
- Energy Efficiency in HFC-free Supermarket Refrigeration
Energy Efficiency in HFC-free Supermarket Refrigeration
Energy Efficiency in HFC-free Supermarket Refrigeration