Sentences with phrase «on hydrofluorocarbon»

The High - Level Segment (HLS) plenary met in the morning, where delegates continued hearing statements from Heads of Delegation, and participated in a ministerial roundtable, «Towards an Agreement on a hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Amendment under the Montreal Protocol: Ensuring benefits for all.»

Kigali, Rwanda — Parties to the Montreal Protocol are expected to adopt an historic global agreement mandating controls on hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) consumption and production after eight years of protracted negotiations.

The Montreal Protocol's Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) meetings, with a special focus on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), take place in Bangkok next week.

In October 2016, the Parties to the Montreal Protocol adopted the Kigali Amendment on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which commits the world's nations to significantly reduce consumption and production of HFCs.

Not exact matches

The deal reached in Kigali, Rwanda, comes after years of wrangling over HFCs — short for hydrofluorocarbons — and could on its own prevent a 0.5 °C (0.9 °F) rise in temperature by 2100.

CGF is urging all consumer goods companies to phase out harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) focusing on four key points; the installation of new refrigeration equipment in markets where viable, engagement with stakeholders to overcome barriers in markets where installation is not currently viable, reduction of the environmental impact of existing refrigeration systems and the development of individual targets and action plans to measure the first three points.

In addition, developed nations are making mistakes when reporting emissions of the gases, called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the study finds.

The amendment to the Montreal Protocol phasing down heat - trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which was adopted in the early hours of Saturday in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, is in part the result of 7 1/2 years of lobbying and maneuvering by the Obama administration, environmental advocacy community and U.S. industry bent on using the ozone treaty to phase down the climate - forcing chemicals.

-- The Administrator shall not issue international offset credits generated by projects based on the destruction of hydrofluorocarbons.

The inventory methods presented focus on the six primary greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, and perfluorocarbons.

On Saturday, diplomats announced a new international agreement aimed at phasing out a family of climate - warming compounds called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.

They sidestepped the super wicked issues impeding restrictions of the greenhouse gas of greatest concern, carbon dioxide, and staff released a joint statement on plans to cut releases of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, a potent group of heat - trapping gases.

Vienna, Austria, 25 July 2016: Civil society organisations welcome the progress that has been made at the international negotiations for phasing down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) which ended on a high this weekend in Vienna.

Last year, Parties agreed to reach an agreement in 2016 on cutting down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are the fastest growing greenhouse gases in many countries.

SciDev.Net: Efforts to rid the world of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of powerful greenhouse gases mainly used as refrigerants, may depend on developing nations being able to leapfrog these chemicals to less harmful alternatives, an environmental group has warned.

Next week the European Parliament will vote on a new F - Gas Regulation — a piece of legislation with which EIA has been closely involved that will see the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in Europe reduced by almost 80 per cent by 2030.

Global efforts to dramatically reduce super greenhouse gases in the fight against climate change saw a major advance today as the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol got the go ahead to crack down on harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

-- The Administrator shall not issue international offset credits generated by projects based on the destruction of hydrofluorocarbons.

EIA's Climate Campaign focuses on international and domestic policies to phase - down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)- potent greenhouse gases (GHGs) used primarily in refrigeration, air conditioning, and foam applications.

At the 36th OEWG, Parties have four amendment proposals to consider for negotiating a deal on a global phase - down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); HFCs are a group of potent greenhouse gases used mainly in refrigeration and air - conditioning, with climate impacts hundreds to thousands of times higher than CO2.

Halogenated gases currently contribute 12 % to overall radiative forcing.1 While actions under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) are already addressing CFCs and HCFCs, atmospheric concentrations of some HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) are rising rapidly, by more than 23 % each year.

In the build - up to 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Parties to the Montreal Protocol launched formal negotiations on one of the largest, fastest and most cost - effective global climate mitigation measures available — the phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

The major non-CO2 GHGs or classes of gases listed by the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change are CH4, N2O, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), and perfluorocarbons (PFCs, includes CF4 and C2F6, etc.).

Muhtar Kent, the CEO of Coca - Cola, is said to have telephoned Mike Duke, the CEO of Walmart, on Thanksgiving Day 2010 to ask him to sign the Consumer Goods Forum's (CGF) resolution, which asks companies to begin phasing down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by 2015.

At this meeting, a formal contact group to begin negotiations on a global phase down of HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) was established.

As the leadership role for U.S. states on the global stage takes shape, super-pollutant hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) should be near the top of the list as the low - hanging fruit for these actors to address.

With the ozone hole already on its way to recovery, parties to the Protocol are targeting hydrofluorocarbons, a group of chemicals that are powerful catalysts of climate change.

The Kigali Amendment will come into force on January 1, 2019, and countries around the world will need to start cutting their consumption and production of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCS)-- potent greenhouse gases used in cooling and refrigeration.

The Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer struck a landmark deal in October 2016 in Kigali to reduce the emissions of powerful greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) filed a petition yesterday calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to end the use of powerful greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in a number of applications, building on the significant progress made in two recent rulemakings under the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program.

Additionally, the seven member countries of the Arctic Council «[urged] the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer to take action as soon as possible... to phase down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons, which contribute to the warming of the Arctic region.»

The series will focus on the key policy and technology issues related to mitigating hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)...

The two leaders have found common ground on limiting heat - trapping hydrofluorocarbons, investment in low - carbon technology, and tracking fossil fuel subsidies in the past.

In a 2007 decision on this question, the Supreme Court ruled clearly on the question: «Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and hydrofluorocarbons are without a doubt «physical [and] chemical... substance [s] which [are] emitted into... the ambient air.»

Global envoys agreed on Saturday to phase out hydrofluorocarbons from cooling appliances beginning in 2019.

It established an online «climate change adaptation portal» created to help Arctic communities adapt to climate change, made commitments with the U.S. and Mexico to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, and established a North American working group on climate change.

The Notice imposes reporting requirements on those who imported, exported, or manufactured certain hydrofluorocarbons («HFCs») from 2008 and 2012.