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MIPIGGs library: useful documents & links

MIPIGGs briefings & reports

• What are PIGGs?
• MIPIGGS 2006 F-Gas Briefing [2006-09-25] pdf
• Names of refrigerants [2004-10-21] pdf
• MIPIGGs top ten actions to be climate-friendly [2004-10-18] pdf
• MIPIGGs briefing on the climate threat posed by f-gases [2004-09-03] pdf
• The capture of standards by the F-gas industry - a special report by MIPIGGs [2002-05-08] pdf
• MIPIGGs Guide to helping the UK Government [2004-12-09] pdf
• "F for Forgotten - Why potent greenhouse gases deserve more attention" [2002-06-05] pdf
• "F for Forgotten" Executive Summary [2002-06-05] pdf
• A handy table of the Global Warming Potential of PIGGs

MIPIGGs correspondence

• MIPIGGs letter to Elliot Morley, UK Environment Minister [2004-02-12] pdf
• MIPIGGs letter to Sir David King UK Chief Scientific Adviser [2004-01-09] pdf
• Reply from Sir David King [2004-01-26] pdf
• Hair Wars: MIPIGGs' correspondence with BASF re hairspray [2002-05] pdf

MIPIGGs press releases & conference notes

• MIPIGGs press release: Parliament Delivers Blow Against Environmental Solutions in F Gas Votes [2004-03-31] pdf
• MIPIGGs press release: New Report Highlights Warming Risk From F-Gases [2002-06-05] pdf
• MIPIGGs press release: Response to the EPEE statement 'Confidence in Standards is critical' [2002-05-28] pdf
• MIPIGGs presents F for Forgotten report at Conference SBSTA, Bonn [2002-06-12]

Other reports

• HFC containment has already failed, Eric Johnson, Atlantic Consulting [2004-02] pdf
• Alternative EPEE FAQs [2002-01-29] pdf
• NGO Submission to the UK DEFRA consultation on the draft EU regulation on f-gases [2004-02-25] pdf
• Keeping cool without warming the planet, J. Anderson, Climate Network Europe [2001] pdf
• Greenpeace Position Paper, 35th Meeting of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol [2001-12] pdf
• Reduction of the emission of HFC's, PFC's and SF₆ in the EU, ECOFYS [1999-04] pdf
• Climate Convention document: SBSTA submissions [2001-12-03] pdf
• Climate Convention document: L16 [2001-11-06] pdf
• Climate Convention document: SBSTA 1999 [1999-09-14] pdf
• Use of non-HFC technology, Joint Expert Submission to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [1999-07-15] pdf
• Not In Kind Refrigeration alternatives, submission to UK Draft Climate Change Strategy, Earthcare Products Ltd [2000] pdf
• Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases in Products and Processes, German Federal Environmental Agency [2004-02-20] pdf
• Summary & extracts of German fluorinated gas report, prepared by MIPIGGs [2004] pdf
• Irish Government's National Climate Change Strategy, pp.31-60 [2000-10] pdf
• Icelandic Regulation: Regulation of certain substances that increase the Global Warming Effect [04-02-1999] pdf
• Danish draft Order banning the use of HFCs, PFCs & SF₆ [2001-02-27] pdf
• Proposal for regulating the potent industrial greenhouse gases Danish Environmental Protection Agency [2000-01] pdf
• European Climate Change Programme - Report [2001-06] pdf
• European Climate Change Programme - Final Report [2001-06-18] pdf
• European Climate Change Programme - Annex i (stakeholders' position papers) [2001-02] pdf
• European Climate Change Programme - Annex ii (stakeholders' position papers) [2001-05] pdf
• Life after CFCs and HCFCs, David Butler, BRE, paper prepared for CIBSE National Conference [2001] pdf
• Parliament rejects tough EU f-gas controls, extracts from Environment Daily 1640 [2004-03-31] pdf
• Foam releases CFCs, ENS report [2001-06-19] pdf
• Confidence in standards is critical according to EPEE: EPEE defence against MIPIGGs' criticisms [2002-05-21] pdf
• Reaction on the 10 points of criticism from MIPIGGs: IPCC response to MIPIGGs criticisms of UN F-gas report [2005-04-13

Links

Events:

• www.refrigerantsnaturally.com/ - Progress in using f-gas alternatives [2004-06-22]

NGOs, networks & academic:

• www.climnet.org - Climate Network Europe
• archive.greenpeace.org/~climate/greenfreeze/index.html - Greenpeace Greenfreeze
• www.ecozone.nl/ - Climate-safe cooling in the Netherlands
• www.greenchill.org - Alternative cooling in Australia

International Governmental and scientific bodies:

• www.globalchange.org - Climate change
• http://unfccc.int/ - UNFCCC ways and means of reducing f-gas emissions
• www.unep.org/ozone/teap/ - Technology and Economic Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol
• www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/ - IPCC GHG inventory practices
• www.ipcc.ch/press/pr13042005.htm: IPCC responds to MIPIGGs criticisms of UN F-gas report
• www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/enveco/studies2.htm - European Commission studies

Government:

• http://www.mst.dk/slutfil.php3?SlutFilId=1464 - Danish EPA's plan to phase out F-gases
• http://international.vrom.nl/pagina.html?id=7383 - The Netherlands' climate policy
• www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/ - UK plan
• http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/Emissions.html - US Environmental Protection Agency

Businesses:

• Nestlé's programme to replace CFCs and HCFCs with ammonia and CO₂
• www.energ-ice.com - INTEGRAL Energietechnik GmbH
• www.earthcareproducts.co.uk - Environmentally friendly refrigeration and air conditioning services
• www.care-refrigerants.co.uk/ - Calor gas refrigerants (CARE)
• www.delonghi.it - Manufacturer of cooling equipment
• www.unilever.com
• www.coca-cola.com/ - Coca Cola policy
• www.fire-eater.dk - Torbjorn Laursen Fire Eater
• Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions (makers of Inergen fire extinguishing agent)

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