A Meeting in Montreal

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Aiming at protecting the climate and the ozone layer, in October of 2016, during the 28th. Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layering Kigali more than 170 countries agreed to amend the Protocol. The phase-down of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol has been under negotiation by the Parties since 2009 and the successful agreement on the Kigali Amendment continues the historic legacy of the Montreal Protocol. Production, consumption, imports, exports, and emissions as well as consumption baselines of
HFCs shall be expressed in carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalents. Dr. Molina, one of the researchers who helped diagnose the problem of ozone depletion said the Montreal Protocol has an important future role to play via the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). HFCs are chemicals that replaced CFCs but were found to be thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere. Her exact statements were, “Adoption of the [Kigali] amendment will prevent the emission of the equivalent of 100 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2050,”. The reduction of HFCs is one of the actions promoted by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition since 2012.

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