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Sulfur hexafluoride: Department of Energy’s crusade against leaks of a potent greenhouse gas yields results
Every year, the United States Department of Energy’s far-flung operations generate millions of tons of climate-warming greenhouse gases. By tightening valves, replacing worn gaskets and such, Josh Silverman and the department’s engineers have managed to cut the annual leaks of one gas by about 35,000 pounds. Which would seem a pittance. Except that this gas [...]
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Why Reporting Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3) Matters
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol now requires nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a chemical released in some high-tech industries including electronics manufacturing, to be included in GHG inventories under the Corporate Standard, Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, and Product Standard. The amendment keeps the GHG Protocol’s reporting requirements aligned with those of the United Nations Framework Convention on [...]
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HFO-1234yf: Appeal reverses ECHA call for animal tests
An appeal has overturned the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) request for additional animal toxicity testing on the automotive air-conditioning refrigerant 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf). The requested test would oppose the ECHA’s responsibility under the Reach (registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals) regulation to ensure that animal tests are only undertaken as a last resort, and that [...]
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EU issues warning to Greece over fluorinated greenhouse gases
The government has been given two months to comply with EU law Greece will be referred to the EU Court of Justice if it fails to comply with EU laws on fluorinated greenhouse gases, the European Commission said on Thursday. Fluorinated gases (F-gases) are powerful greenhouse gases with a high global warming potential, widely used [...]
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Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emission estimates for China: an inventory for 1990–2010 and a projection to 2020
Abstract: Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is the most potent greenhouse gas regulated under the Kyoto Protocol, with a high global warming potential. In this study, SF6 emissions from China were inventoried for 1990–2010 and projected to 2020. Results reveal that the highest SF6 emission contribution originates from the electrical equipment sector (about 70%), followed by the [...]
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New Air Conditioning Refrigerant Faces Protests from Daimler and Volkswagen
Air Conditioning units are meant to keep everything cool. However, as the European Union pushed for the switch of refrigerants from R-134a to R-1234yf for new cars this 2013, things have gone hot. The new chemical was developed by Dupont and Honeywell. It was a product of years of research and millions of dollars of [...]
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HFO-1234yf: Mercedes faces off with Honeywell, DuPont over coolant safety
FRANKFURT (Reuters) — When engineers at Mercedes-Benz tasked with field-testing a new refrigerant watched it ignite in a ball of fire before their eyes, it took a while for the significance of their discovery to sink in. The discovery suggested the new product posed a risk to car passengers. It has set off a battle [...]
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EU scales back planned F-gas bans, opts for phase-out
The EU has abandoned plans to ban global warming fluorinated gases from Europe’s commercial and industrial refrigerators, opting largely for a ‘phase-down’ approach intended to reduce the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions to a third of today’s levels by 2030. Isaac Valero, a spokesman for EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, said that the package was “the [...]
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EU: Questions and Answers on the Commission proposal to reduce emissions of climate-warming fluorinated gases
Questions and Answers on the Commission proposal to reduce emissions of climate-warming fluorinated gases 1. What is the European Commission proposing? The Commission has put forward a proposal to replace the existing Regulation 1 on fluorinated greenhouse gases with the aim of significantly reducing emissions of the gases in the European Union. By setting the [...]
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EU: Gradual ban on HFCs proposed
The European Commission wants to reduce the use of the powerful global warming gases mainly used in refrigerators and air-conditioners. The European Commission proposed today (7 November) to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), powerful global warming gases mainly used in refrigerators and air-conditioners. Under the proposal, the use of HFCs will be cut to [...]
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