The EU is on track for meeting its HFC phase-down obligation

In its 2019 edition (1) of the report on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) published in February 2020, the European Environment Agency (EEA) notes “the good progress achieved in 2018 by the European Union (EU) in phasing-down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)”. The report presents the data reported in 2019 by 2089 companies about their activities involving fluorinated gases (F-gases) in 2018 and assesses both the progress made under the ongoing EU-wide HFC phase-down under the F-gas Regulation and the outlook towards the global HFC phase-down, which began in 2019 under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.