Les émissions de gaz fluorés en Europe (en anglais)

The European Environment Agency (EEA) recently published its annual report on fluorinated greenhouse gases. The report evaluates the progress of the phase-down of the use of fluorinated gas as required by the European F-Gas Regulation since January 1, 2015. It gives figures for the 2007 2016 period.

 

F-gases, mostly (more than 90%) HFCs, accounted for about 3% of overall greenhouse gas emissions in tonnes CO₂ equivalent in 2015. 2015 was the first year of declining EU F gas emissions (4%) in 15 years. In 2016, the supply of total F gases increased by 2% in mass but decreased by 2% in CO₂ emissions, illustrating the move towards gases with lower GWPs. In the refrigeration sector, large increases in the use of lower GWP HFCs saw Europe stay 4% below the 170.3 Mt F gas phase down limit for 2016.

 

Nevertheless, a bigger step will be taken in 2018, since the maximum quantity of HFCs to be placed on the market should be 63% of that of 2015. For comparison, this ratio was of 93% in 2016 and 2017.

 

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