This picture taken on June 12, 2025 shows Ari Sobarudin, field and warehouse officer for climate startup Recoolit, checking AC refrigerant stored in cylinders at the company's warehouse in Jakarta. In the basement of a Jakarta housing complex, surrounded by the air-conditioning system's silver piping, Indonesian technician Ari Sobaruddin is starting the unglamorous task of tackling climate change. -- Photo by Bay ISMOYO / AFP
JAKARTA (AFP): In the basement of a Jakarta housing complex, surrounded by the silver piping of the air-conditioning system, Indonesian technician Ari Sobaruddin is doing his part to tackle climate change.
Ari and his colleagues will spend 12 hours capturing AC refrigerant to stop this "super-pollutant" -- thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide -- from leaking into the atmosphere.
