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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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 [...]
Chilling Facts III is released
This week sees the launch of EIA’s third supermarket survey. Over the past three years I’ve been amazed by the level of progress some retailers have made towards adopting HFC-free refrigeration. You’ll see from the results that 2010 was definitely the year HFC-free supermarket refrigeration went mainstream. Today a whopping 246 stores across Great Britain [...]
Tensions rise ahead of Friday’s critical HFC-23 vote
This year has certainly got off to a flying start, with all of last year’s campaigning on the HFC-23 issue about to come to a head. This Friday, European Countries will vote on a proposed regulation to ban the use of HFC and other industrial gas credits in Europe’s carbon markets from January 2013. If [...]
Trials and triumphs at the annual Montreal Protocol meeting
This chilly weather is certainly a shock to the system and doubly so given last week I was in balmy Bangkok attending the Montreal Protocol annual Meeting of the Parties. But it’s definitely not as glamorous as it might sound, arriving in on Sunday barely gave us time to get over the seven hour time [...]
Global Environment Campaign takes the limelight this week
This week our blog features our Global Environment Campaign, Fin Walraven’s comments on the latest developments: It’s been a busy few weeks here as we’ve started to look at a new area of work, involving the carbon markets. All quite complicated I’m afraid-would you expect anything else from the Global Environment Campaign!? So in a [...]