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Everything to know about the April 8 eclipse in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #eclipse | SaltWireSINGAPORE - Large amounts of climate-warming refrigerant gases from China and Turkey are being smuggled illegally into Europe, undermining a global pact to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency said on Monday.
"It's still pretty easy to find illegal HFCs in the European market," said Fin Walravens, a senior EIA campaigner."There are signs that traders are adapting their methods, that they are getting a bit of savvy trying to evade authorities."As part of the 2016 Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol, European and other industrial countries are committed to slash HFC use by 85% from 2012 to 2036.
"It is so much easier if you're licensed to just exceed your quota: it is so hard to prove," said Walravens."The phase-down is meant to make HFCs expensive and make people think alternatives are better and more cost effective, but if illegal trade comes in and is sold at half the price, the whole system crumbles."
China is the world's biggest HFC producer, with 39 authorised manufacturers granted production permits equivalent to 185 million tons of CO2 this year. It issued new rules in December to punish firms that exceed their quotas.
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