Recent findings reveal that emissions of HFC-23, a potent greenhouse gas generated during refrigerant production, are significantly underestimated, signaling alarming shortcomings in global efforts to curb such emissions.
Since the signing of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol in 2016, over 160 nations committed to reducing HFC-23 emissions, which possess a warming potential 14,700 times greater than that of carbon dioxide. However, government-reported data indicates that actual emissions have not declined as expected.
