These are exciting times for global efforts to reduce hydrofluorocarbon(HFC) emissions; greenhouse gases that are widely used in refrigerators, air conditioners and other industrial applications. Compared to two years ago when China and India’s semantic ping pong dulled any prospects of progress in the Montreal Protocol’s 31st Open-ended working group, this… read more
Introduction to Short-Lived Pollutants
Even with two major treaties coming out of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, international attention to Global Warming has been dropping in recent years. It is nearly impossible to come up with a global consensus on how best to approach the problem. … read more