Sentence examples for hydrofluorocarbon from inspiring English sources
noun
A haloalkane composed entirely of carbon, hydrogen, and fluorine.
It proposed that from Jan . 1 , 2013the trading scheme should exclude offset credits from hydrofluorocarbon 23 and nitrous oxide credits from adipic acid production.
Europe's executive commission said the hydrofluorocarbon credits from industrial projects were overvalued in Europe by a factor of 78, discouraging the flow of money to more credible projects in the least developed countries.
Several members of a United Nations panel that oversees the international offsetting scheme agreed that the hydrofluorocarbon 23 scheme should be revised.
The commission wants to stop exploitation of the system by project developers who are suspected of adjusting refrigerant plants to produce more of potent greenhouse gas hydrofluorocarbon 23 as a waste byproduct and then destroying it to claim the carbon offsets.
The executive commission said that 80 percent of the disputed hydrofluorocarbon credits and 60 percent of the nitrous oxide credits came from China, and most of the rest came from India.
The Coca-Cola Company has invested more than $60m over the past decade in research and development to advance the use of Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)- free cooling technologies.
These pollutants (soot, methane and hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs) are believed to contribute about a third of the human-caused rise in global temperatures.
The existing agreement does not cover a class of chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) which do not harm ozone but do act as greenhouse gases; they are among the fastest-growing such gases.
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are ozone-friendly replacements for CFCs, and are one of the fastest-growing greenhouse gases, having risen 40% since 1990.
The rest comes from a variety of sources, including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), black carbon (soot), methane and nitrogen compounds.
They recently agreed to cut hydrofluorocarbons (an especially potent greenhouse gas), develop carbon capture and storage and reduce emissions from heavy vehicles a good start.
