Recital 2

(2) Fluorinated greenhouse gases are human-made chemicals that are very strong greenhouse gases, which are often several thousand times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2). Together with CO2, methane and nitrous oxide, fluorinated greenhouse gases belong to the group of greenhouse gas emissions covered by the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (the ‘Paris Agreement’) (5). Today, fluorinated greenhouse gas emissions amount to 2,5 % of total greenhouse gas emissions in the Union, and have doubled from 1990 to 2014 in contrast to other greenhouse gas emissions, which have fallen.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.