Reducing the climate impact of black market HFC gases

减少黑市 HFC 气体对气候的影响

• 批准号: 76294
• 金额: $ 7.63万
• 依托单位: VISTALWORKS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=76294
• 关键词: Reducing; climate; impact; black; market

**HFC greenhouse gases - the biggest black market you've never heard of** The UK and Europe's climate goals are being undermined by a thriving black market for HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), which enter the EU under the radar of the F-gas quota system. Our stakeholder's research from July 2020 suggests the illicit trade volume in HFCs could be as high as a third of the legal EU market (equivalent to at least ?850million) and accounting for 34 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases. That is the CO2 equivalent to 8.7 coal fired power stations running for a year, 5,756,402 homes electricity use for a year, or 3,388,107 car trips around the entire circumference of the earth! On it's own, this black market would be the EU's 20th largest country in terms of CO? impact - ahead of the entire national emissions of Estonia - if the global warming potential of illegal HFCs were measured alongside the EU's 27 member states. **You're not the only one who's not aware of this problem** Illicit trade is the biggest source of funding for organised criminal gangs, and is a cross-border, international challenge. Unfortunately, right now, enforcement of the regulations preventing illegal trade in HFCs are virtually non-existent. National law enforcement priorities are elsewhere, and it is hard to tell one green canister from another to the untrained eye. That makes this illegal HFC business very low risk, very profitable, and far more lucrative and attractive than drug dealing and human trafficking. Not only that, but because illicit HFCs can "unwittingly" find their way into buildings, air conditioning (building, cars and transport) systems, refrigeration systems and other light industry, efforts to switch to Clean Energy and meet Net Zero targets can be undermined and completely negated. **Solution to detect, enforce and safely eliminate illegally traded HFCs** Vistalworks is proposing a technology solution that automatically detects illegal sellers of HFCs, provides jurisdictionally appropriate leads to enforcement agencies, along with the necessary field kit to help ordinary officers detect illicit products when they find them, and collects and stores case data in a way that will support successful prosecutions. This solution delivers social good at a nationally and globally significant levels, potentially curbing the significant levels of climate-related emissions caused by illicit HFCs by 170,000 tonnes of CO2 a year.

*HFC温室气体-你从未听说过的最大黑市**英国和欧洲的气候目标正受到HFC(氢氟烃)黑市的破坏，HFC(氢氟烃)黑市在F-气体配额制度的雷达下进入欧盟。我们的利益相关者2020年7月的研究表明，氢氟碳化物的非法贸易量可能高达欧盟合法市场的三分之一(相当于至少8.5亿欧元)，占3400万吨二氧化碳当量温室气体。这相当于8.7座燃煤电厂运行一年的二氧化碳，5756,402户家庭一年的用电量，或绕地球一周行驶3388,107辆汽车！就其本身而言，这个黑市将成为欧盟第20大CO？如果与欧盟27个成员国一起衡量非法氢氟碳化物的全球变暖潜力，那么其影响将领先于爱沙尼亚的整个国家排放量。**你不是唯一一个没有意识到这个问题的人**非法贸易是有组织犯罪团伙的最大资金来源，是一个跨境的国际挑战。不幸的是，目前，防止氢氟碳化合物非法贸易的法规几乎不存在。国家执法的重点在其他地方，很难区分不受过训练的眼睛从一个绿色毒气罐到另一个绿色毒气罐。这使得这种非法的HFC业务风险非常低，利润非常高，而且比毒品交易和人口贩运更有利可图，更具吸引力。不仅如此，由于非法氢氟碳化物可能“无意中”进入建筑物、空调(建筑、汽车和运输)系统、制冷系统和其他轻工业，转向清洁能源和实现净零目标的努力可能会遭到破坏和完全否定。**检测、执行和安全消除非法交易HFC的解决方案**Vistalworks正在提出一种技术解决方案，该解决方案可以自动检测HFC的非法卖家，向执法机构提供适用于司法管辖的线索，以及必要的现场工具包，以帮助普通官员在发现非法产品时发现它们，并以支持成功起诉的方式收集和存储案件数据。这一解决方案在国家和全球范围内产生了显著的社会效益，有可能将非法氢氟碳化合物每年造成的与气候有关的大量排放减少17万吨二氧化碳。