Hydrochlorofluorocarbons
Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Clive Efford (Eltham, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will set a date for ending the use of fluoride-based greenhouse gases in refrigeration units; and if he will make a statement.
Jim Fitzpatrick (Minister of State (Minister for Food, Farming and Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Poplar & Canning Town, Labour)
The UK is working closely with its EU partners to achieve an international HFC emissions reduction arrangement as one of the outcomes of the Copenhagen climate conference next month. Such an arrangement would include the fluorinated greenhouse gases used in refrigeration units. Under this arrangement, the parties to the Montreal protocol would undertake the detailed negotiation of dates by when phase-down must be achieved during their meetings next year.