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- noun Plural form of
HFC .
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Examples
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A UN panel meets this week in Bonn to consider limits on how many credits are provided to investors who pay to reduce so - called HFCs, which can trap about 12,000 times more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, after allegations of misuse.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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When the ship returns to the fleet later this year, its 10 air conditioning plants and five refrigeration plants will use hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, known as HFCs, which are friendlier to the atmosphere.
Navy Times - News 2009
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The parties agreed to stop paying for the substitution of ozone destroying substances if high-global warming potential gases such as HFCs are used; and they escalated actions to destroy existing banks of gases - as much as 6 gigatons of CO2-equivalent HFCs over the next five years - to prevent their release into the atmosphere.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: David Sassoo 2009
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"Black carbon is part of a package of fast-action strategies that can achieve mitigation in the near term and slow Arctic warming, including targeting short-lived, non-CO2 climate forcers such as HFCs, methane, and tropospheric ozone, as well as increasing carbon sequestration through forest protection and production of biochar."
Mongabay.com News 2009
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Phase down HFCs by governments adopting new commitments covering these super greenhouse gases under the Montreal Protocol and by companies agreeing to phase down their use in products that they produce, use, or sell
Jake Schmidt: Key Actions on Climate & Energy That World Leaders Need to Take at the Earth Summit in 2012 Jake Schmidt 2011
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Phase down HFCs by governments adopting new commitments covering these super greenhouse gases under the Montreal Protocol and by companies agreeing to phase down their use in products that they produce, use, or sell
Jake Schmidt: Key Actions on Climate & Energy That World Leaders Need to Take at the Earth Summit in 2012 Jake Schmidt 2011
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Found in products such as refrigerators and air-conditioning units, f-gases, for instance HFCs, are forcing up global temperatures but, importantly, their effects are short-lived.
James Thornton: F-Gases: An Essential Landmark for Europe's Low-Carbon Roadmap James Thornton 2011
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Phase down HFCs by governments adopting new commitments covering these super greenhouse gases under the Montreal Protocol and by companies agreeing to phase down their use in products that they produce, use, or sell
Jake Schmidt: Key Actions on Climate & Energy That World Leaders Need to Take at the Earth Summit in 2012 Jake Schmidt 2011
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Found in products such as refrigerators and air-conditioning units, f-gases, for instance HFCs, are forcing up global temperatures but, importantly, their effects are short-lived.
James Thornton: F-Gases: An Essential Landmark for Europe's Low-Carbon Roadmap James Thornton 2011
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If we can reduce CFCs and HFCs with the Montreal Protocol why not apply the same principles to carbon ...
“Daddy, what did YOU do in the climate wars?” | Serendipity 2009
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