Illegal climate-wrecking refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, our latest research shows. Five years after EIA revealed a widespread European illegal trade in hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) climate gases, our new report More Chilling Than Ever reveals that significant levels of trafficking persist and that black market traffickers are becoming more sophisticated to evade detection. We found evidence of traders primarily sourcing HFCs from Turkiye and China to import illegally into the EU.
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