EU reaches deal to cap super-warming F-gases

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Series Details 17.12.13
Publication Date 17/12/2013
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The European Union reached on the 16 December 2013 a tentative deal on limiting the use in fridges and air conditioners of fluorinated gases that have a global warming potential thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide.

The agreement needs to be endorsed by EU diplomats and then the European Parliament and EU ministers to become law, EU officials said.
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ESO: Background Information: MEPs back phase-out of F-gas coolants blamed for global warming http://www.europeansources.info/record/meps-back-phase-out-of-f-gas-coolants-blamed-for-global-warming/
Council of the European Union: Press Release, PRES/13/593: Fluorinated greenhouse gases http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/envir/140153.pdf
European Commission: RAPID: Memo, MEMO/13/1183: European Commissioner Connie Hedegaard welcomes major step forward to reduce some of the most dangerous greenhouse gases http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-1183_en.pdf
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