Reporting live from the 31st OEWG of the Montreal Protocol
It’s the last day of the OEWG and time to take a step back and see what we’ve achieved.
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Treaty to restore ozone layer delivers massive climate protection
Montreal, Canada. While international climate talks remain deadlocked, the Montreal Protocol has been methodically eliminating some of the worst chemicals contributing to global warming. International ozone negotiators meeting in Montreal last week approved country plans to phase out ozone-depleting substances (ODS) which are also super greenhouse gases (GHGs) harmful to the global climate. By 2015, [...]
Report to 31st Meeting of Montreal Protocol’s Open Ended Working Group
A report to the 31st meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of parties to the Montreal Protocol, held in Montreal, Canada, from August 1-5, 2011
Land of the Blue Sky, Mongolia hosts meeting on the illegal trade that threatens our ozone layer
As regular visitors to this blog will be aware, as part of our Global Environment Campaign, EIA has been fighting an ongoing battle against the illegal trade in ozone depleting substances for many years now. An unfortunate – yet avoidable – consequence of the global phase out of first CFCs, and now HCFCs, black market [...]
Public and private sectors in partnership to face new challenges with trade in ozone-depleting chemicals
Twenty-one international delegates and 14 local experts met at the recently concluded Summit with the Private Sector on Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances (Ulaanbaatar 2.0) organised by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Asia is the largest producer and consumer of Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS). Over the [...]
Subsidies for super greenhouse gas manufacture must be eliminated
Producers should pay for destruction of potent HFC-23 climate gas LONDON: The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for an end to the expensive United Nations (UN) program costing almost a billion euros a year to capture and destroy the super greenhouse gas HFC-23. On the eve of an expected decision by the UN’s Clean [...]