Factories producing non-stick coatings for cookware aren’t properly limiting emissions of one of the most potent greenhouse gases, our research suggests.
HCFCs were a temporary replacement for CFCs, the initial subject of the 1987 Montreal protocol.
In the first commitment of its kind, 63 countries promised to slash emissions from cooling and refrigeration.
A central question remains unresolved in the draft treaty: Is plastic pollution basically a waste management problem, or can it be solved only with a cap on production?
Coca-Cola has made ambitions climate and sustainability pledges, but marketing its products worldwide will always be a top priority.
Many developing nations have little cold storage and lose much of their perishable food before it gets to markets. Climate-friendly refrigeration can provide huge environmental and social benefits.
Over 170 countries have endorsed a resolution to negotiate a plastics treaty that’s much more precise than the Paris climate change agreement.
Without action in the next five years, an extra 80 million tonnes of plastic may end up in the ocean by 2040.
New research shows how the Montreal Protocol protected vegetation, helping keep carbon out of the atmosphere.
Molina, who died on Oct. 8, 'thought climate change was the biggest problem in the world long before most people did.' His research on man-made depletion of the ozone layer won the 1995 Nobel Prize.
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