Full Steam Ahead: Charting the Path to a Future Without HFCs

November 16, 2014

As the international community heads towards a milestone climate change agreement in 2015, the Parties to the Montreal Protocol stand poised to begin negotiations on the most immediate, cost effective and tangible global measure to address climate change ever contemplated – the phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

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What are the HFC-free Technologies?

Widespread adoption of HFC-free technologies is cost-effective, energy efficient, and climate-friendly. Read EIA’s report Putting the Freeze on HFCs for hundreds of examples of HFC-free technologies available and in use today.

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A Global HFC Phase-down

The October 2016 Montreal Protocol meeting in Kigali, Rwanda yielded a global agreement to phase down HFCs. Now countries must ratify and implement the Kigali Amendment! Read and share EIA's briefing on this great opportunity and obligation to avert climate catastrophe.

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