Climate - More Chilling Than Ever - Tackling Europe’s ongoing illegal trade in HFC climate

The Kigali Amendment to the As HFCs became scarcer, the market price of HFCs interpreting atmospheric concentrations of the gases Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone soared, reaching peaks of up to 13 times higher than Illegal trade in refrigerant gases is not a new as well as to customs officers who are monitoring and Layer was agreed in 2016 in recognition of the threat that p. [...] The gradual reduced from their peak, the market price of HFCs in of the Montreal Protocol, the world’s most lauded phase-down of HFCs under the Kigali Amendment will the EU remains significantly higher than that of HFCs environmental treaty. [...] In 2022, a Romanian media outlet points of entry for illegal HFCs into the EU, with the reported that some of the cases highlighted by EIA had gases originating from China via Russia and Ukraine been referred to a provincial court,7 but despite requests EIA deployed undercover operatives to three locations Not surprisingly, the majority of the HFCs used in the EU, in the north-east, and from Türki. [...] One major times in order to confuse the trail of the goods and often batches to try to bring across the border.14 Illegal traders Turkish HFC company suggested using this method declaring the goods as having exited the EU, when in fact continue to use these smuggling methods but have to smuggle HFCs from Türkiye to Spain, France and Above: The illegal trade routes into and they have been diverted. [...] Once placed on the single market, HFCs can EIA believes the use of maximum fines is travel around the EU with no requirement to insufficient and Member States need to enact demonstrate the quota associated with the HFC minimum fines and consider custodial sentences in question and there is no way for enforcement at a consistent level across the EU to ensure authorities to prove that the HFCs are q.