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SUBMITTER: Stanley KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6972758 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stanley K M KM Say D D Mühle J J Harth C M CM Krummel P B PB Young D D O'Doherty S J SJ Salameh P K PK Simmonds P G PG Weiss R F RF Prinn R G RG Fraser P J PJ Rigby M M
Nature communications 20200121 1
Under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, new controls are being implemented to reduce emissions of HFC-23 (CHF[Formula: see text]), a by-product during the manufacture of HCFC-22 (CHClF[Formula: see text]). Starting in 2015, China and India, who dominate global HCFC-22 production (75% in 2017), set out ambitious programs to reduce HFC-23 emissions. Here, we estimate that these measures should have seen global emissions drop by 87% between 2014 and 2017. Instead, atmospheric observati ...[more]