Friday, November 2, 2012

India HFC-23 emissions may rise if CDM boon ends - former official

Reuters: Moves to curb offsets issued to emission reduction projects that destroy HFC-23 could result in a steep rise in emissions of the highly potent greenhouse gas as governments are unlikely to force or pay companies to destroy it instead, former Indian climate negotiator Prodipto Ghosh said Tuesday. Currently 19 plants that produce the refrigerant gas HCFC-22 earn carbon credits under the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism by destroying the waste gas HFC-23, a tonne of which has the same heat-trapping...

URL: http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/india-hfc-23-emissions-may-rise-cdm-boon-172235534.html

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