{"value":{"id":1727770,"askingMemberId":4719,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-09-05T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2024-09-19T00:00:00","uin":"HL784","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which the release of trifluoromethane (HFC-23) from manufacturing and other processes within the UK is being prevented in line with the 2016 Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol; and what steps they are taking internationally to support and move towards such measures being taken around the world.","answeringBodyId":13,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4395,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-09-16T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>HFC-23 emissions in the UK are reported annually in the National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory submitted to the UNFCCC and have been assessed to be insignificant (~0.0MtCO<sub>2</sub>e) for all reported years since 2010. Since 2012, HFC-23 emissions have represented less than 0.1% of the UK’s territorial HFC emissions.</p><p> </p><p>As a donor country to the Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund, the UK provides financial support for developing countries to comply with their Kigali Amendment obligations, including those regarding HFC-23.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Hydrofluorocarbons","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1727770","method":"GET"}]}