Data Gathering, Monitoring and Reporting on Hydrofluorocarbons

Funded by: Georgetown University / Quadrature Climate Foundation

Georgetown University Principal Investigator: Professor Megan Lickley

The work performed at MIT will help quantify and locate HFC emission sources at country-level scale in under-monitored regions of the world, and contribute to the evaluation of national compliance with the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which mandates the phasedown of HFC consumption globally due their large global warming potentials. This includes supporting efforts to improve observational coverage by identifying promising new measurement locations based on sensitivity ("footprint") analysis. The researchers will collaborate closely with others at MIT and the wider Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) network conducting regional and global inverse modelling.