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Fluorinated greenhouse gases in 2017
Courtesy of European Environment Agency (EEA)
Data reported by companies on the production, import, export and destruction of fluorinated greenhouse gases in the European Union, 2007-2016.
Executive summary
The 2017 edition of the European Environment Agency (EEA) report on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) confirms the good progress achieved in 2016 by the European Union (EU) in phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a set of fluorinated gases with a high global warming potential (GWP) that is significantly contributing to climate change.
The report evaluates and presents the data reported by companies in 2017 about their activities involving F-gases in 2016, assessing both the progress made under the ongoing EU-wide HFC phase-down and the outlook towards the global HFC phase-down, which is due to begin in 2019 under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
The report also details the amount of F-gases supplied to different industrial applications. The report uses two different metrics: F-gas amounts expressed in physical tonnes reflect the use patterns of F-gases in European industries, while their GWP (in tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalents (t CO2e)) are relevant for climate change policy.
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