The news followed an investigation by POLITICO’s E&E News into climate-friendly inhalers and how drug giants are developing them to undermine competition. The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca ...

“In an ideal world, we’ll have all the required molecules available in the various inhaler combinations, which are good and safe for the patient, good and safe for the environment,” he says.

“Some types of inhalers contain a propellant (gas) to carry the medicine into the lungs. The propellant has a greenhouse gas effect, which contributes to climate change (global warming).