Brussels unveils new proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

  • 12/12/2002

  • Financial Times (London)

Air bubbles in the solesof jogging shoes may become a relic if an ambitious regulation unveiled yesterday by the European Commission to reduce greenhouse gases is pushed through.Plans by indsutry to produce a self-cooling drink can in preparation for more heat-waves might also have to be ditched, as it is among several products that contail powerful fluorinated gases, some of which have a global warming potential 23,900 times that of carbon dioxide.