IPCC/TEAP special report on safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system
Subtitle: issues related to hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons
By: edited by Bert Metz ... [et al.].
Contributors: United Nations Environment Programme. Technology and Economics Assessment Panel.
Publisher: Published for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [by] Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Climatic changes.; Ozone-depleting substances -- Statistics.; Greenhouse gases -- Statistics.; Fluorocarbons.
Genres: Statistics.
Other titles: IPCC special report on safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system.; Safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system : issues related to hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons.
Description: For policymakers -- Technical summary -- Ozone and climate: a review of interconnections -- Chemical and radiative effects of halocarbons and their replacement compounds -- Methodologies -- Refrigeration -- Residential and commercial air conditioning and heating -- Mobile air conditioning -- Foams -- Medical aerosols -- Fire protection -- Non-medical aerosols, solvents, and HFC-23 -- HFCs and PFCs: current and future supply, demand and emissions, plus emissions of CFCs, HCFCs, and halons -- ANNEXES: I: Authors and reviewers -- II: Glossary -- III: Acronyms and abbreviations -- IV: Units -- V: Major chemical formulas and nomenclature -- VI: List of major IPCC reports.
Notes: 'Prepared by Working Groups I and III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Technical and Economic Assessment Panel."

"The volume includes a Summary for policymakers approved by governments represented in the IPCC, and a Technical summary"--Half-title.

Includes bibliographical references.