European fluorinated greenhouse gas emissions cut by 42%
Summary
As the European Union is reviewing its climate legislation and fluorinated gas regulation in 2021, this leadership highlights the benefits and results of having a proactive approach from industry stakeholders. Semiconductors themselves make significant contributions to mitigating carbon emissions, facilitating energy savings, and reducing power consumption across society that enable the European Green Deal’s climate goals, primarily by improving the efficient use of energy. Such improvements are made in areas such as automobiles, smarter mobility solutions (hybrid and electric vehicles), buildings, lighting, industry production, cloud storage and computing, and by facilitating the use of renewable energy sources. The use of PFC gases remains critical to the production of semiconductors, as there are no effective substitutes that can be utilised. PFC emissions reduction technologies that are applied in their factory operations include: manufacturing process optimisation (reducing the amount of PFCs that are used and emitted), using alternative process PFC chemistries with lower global warming potential where possible, and installing abatement equipment systems.