Coca-Cola, Unilever, Tesco and co pledge to end net deforestation and phase out HFCs

One of the world's most influential business groups yesterday marked the launch of the Cancun summit with the unveiling of two new environmental pledges that promise to slash global emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation and refrigeration technologies.

The Paris-based Consumer Good Forum (CGF), which includes more than 400 of the world's largest consumer goods manufacturers and retailers, said its members would use their collective resources to help achieve net zero deforestation by 2020 and begin phasing out the use of powerful hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) greenhouse gases in refrigeration equipment from 2015.