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HFC
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Hydrofluorocarbon, a class of molecules containing hydrogen, fluorine and carbon atoms
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"Most HFC members combined with the vast majority of House Democrats in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat this legislation," he wrote in the resignation letter.
Waitrose also intends to replace all HFC refrigeration systems within a decade.
Formerly at Arsenal, Queens Park Rangers, HFC Haarlem, Ajax, Sparta Rotterdam and RKC Waalwijk he holds an international masters in sports management, attained at the Johan Cruyff Institute.
At least partly in response to being attacked by green activists including Coke for using HFC refrigerant gases, Pepsi for dumping plastic waste and Nestlé and Unilever for their ties to palm-oil companies linked to tropical deforestation all have been improving their environmental record for a decade or more.
HFC, for example, an industrial gas, has 11,000 times the greenhouse effect of CO2.
Keen to keep hold of the cash for its own purposes, the Chinese government has slapped a 65% tax on HFC projects and is funnelling the money into a "sustainable development" fund.
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These days China produces most of the world's HFC-23.
But there is little incentive for approved incineration schemes to reduce the amount of HFC-23 that they produce.
More detailed studies might show precisely which industrial regions the gases are coming from, and thus reveal what is going on with specific HFC-23-mitigation projects.For gases that are sometimes or always produced biologically, such as carbon dioxide and methane, a less geographic way of assigning sources is possible.
If some HFC-23 CERs were deemed retroactively invalid, such sanctions would drive up the price of other CERs while putting some of these entities in serious financial trouble.There is some good news.
HFC-23 is produced as a by-product of the manufacture of HCFC-22, an ozone-destroying refrigerant.
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