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EU reaches deal to cap super-warming F-gases

2013-12-18 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EurActiv: The European Union on Monday (16 December) reached 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. Two decades after international action led to the phasing out of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the European Commission last year proposed a law to eliminate the climate-harming "F-gases" that replaced CFCs. Under Monday's deal, the new rules introduce a cap...

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