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April 24, 2012 by IGSD Key Allies Join Second Front in Climate War

The second front in the war against climate change just got major reinforcements in the effort to reduce black carbon (soot), methane, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), collectively known as short-lived climate pollutants…

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April 24, 2012
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March 30, 2012 by IGSD Black carbon ranked number two climate pollutant by US EPA

The US Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a report to Congress released today that targeted strategies to reduce black carbon “can be expected to provide climate benefits within the next several decades,” based on black carbon’s strong warming potential and its short atmospheric lifetime of days to weeks.

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March 30, 2012
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December 16, 2011 by IGSD EPA approves alternatives for super-greenhouse HFC refrigerants

The U.S. EPA took a major step this week towards reducing the fastest growing greenhouses gas in the United States by approving three low global warming potential (GWP) hydrocarbon alternatives to hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants.

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December 16, 2011
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November 25, 2011 by IGSD Fast cuts to non-CO2 climate pollutants can cut rate of warming in half

A new UNEP report details how fast action to reduce non-CO2 short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs), including black carbon, methane and tropospheric ozone, can cut the rate of global warming in half and the Arctic by two-thirds over the next 30-60 years.

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November 25, 2011