I—F-gases are long-lived climate pollutants that are a source of around 2% of global emissions, and projected to grow as a share of global emissions as the energy sector cleans up and countries get wealthier and hotter and subsequently adopt more cooling and refrigeration equipment.
T—There are existing organizations working to capture and destroy F-gases. The manufacture of the worst offending refrigerants is nearly universally banned, so there is little concern for displacement effects.
N—There is no strong incentive to prevent refrigerant leaks or dispose of old refrigerant responsibly besides climate benefits. Some can be recovered and resold and will eventually end up in the atmosphere absent some intervention. (Think of how few CFLs or electronics are disposed of properly despite laws mandating proper disposal).
It’s an offset without the robustness, temporary, displacement, counterfactual or other concerns of the more common and popular forest protection offsets.
Sure. Here’s a short presentation I did on F-gases a while back.
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I—F-gases are long-lived climate pollutants that are a source of around 2% of global emissions, and projected to grow as a share of global emissions as the energy sector cleans up and countries get wealthier and hotter and subsequently adopt more cooling and refrigeration equipment.
T—There are existing organizations working to capture and destroy F-gases. The manufacture of the worst offending refrigerants is nearly universally banned, so there is little concern for displacement effects.
N—There is no strong incentive to prevent refrigerant leaks or dispose of old refrigerant responsibly besides climate benefits. Some can be recovered and resold and will eventually end up in the atmosphere absent some intervention. (Think of how few CFLs or electronics are disposed of properly despite laws mandating proper disposal).
It’s an offset without the robustness, temporary, displacement, counterfactual or other concerns of the more common and popular forest protection offsets.
If interested in funding to destroy refrigerants, see: https://tradewater.co/