Sentences with phrase «damaging hydrofluorocarbons»

With the adoption of a new safety standard today by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), U.S. consumers are one step closer to being able to purchase household refrigerators free of climate damaging hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants.

Compared to conventional refrigeration units, these panels are less likely to leak damaging hydrofluorocarbon gas (HFC).

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Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

It also will lead to a phase - down of the «super» greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are hundreds and thousands of times more damaging to the global climate than carbon dioxide.

Although the Montreal Protocol eliminated the use of most gases which were damaging the ozone layer, its job is not done as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- the chemicals which have replaced ozone - depleting substances — are now destroying our climate.