Bummer: Remember when we spent an enormous amount of money to heal the planet by switching from CFCs to HFCs? That was a mistake; sorry for any inconvenience

Treaty that saved the ozone may worsen climate change

The situation is critical: without fast action to limit their growth, HFCs could annually contribute up to 20 percent as much to global warming as carbon dioxide by 2050, according to a recent press release by the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development...“HFCs would not exist without the Montreal Protocol,” Clare Perry, senior campaigner at the Environmental Investigation Agency, told IPS.