Sentences with phrase «ozone treaty»

The Multilateral Fund to help countries implement the Montreal Protocol received $ 31 million, down only $ 1 million from enacted levels — an allocation credited at least in part to former White House energy adviser George David Banks, a strong backer of the ozone treaty.

But not everyone agreed that the ozone treaty was the right place to address HFC proliferation, and China and India initially insisted that climate pollutants should be dealt with only under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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.

Yurek recalls meeting with State Department and U.S. EPA officials during Obama's first term as part of a delegation of environmentalists and industry advocates to drive home the idea that HFCs should be addressed under the ozone treaty, not the broader U.N. climate process as some developing countries insisted.

Methyl bromide releases bromine, which destroys up to 60 times as much ozone as the chlorine released by CFCs and other chemicals already controlled by the ozone treaty.

He also noted that the island nations of Mauritius and Micronesia had already proposed an amendment to the ozone treaty calling for a phase - out of HFC's and that the United States was deciding whether to support it.

David Doniger, climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the fine print of the ozone treaty allows signatories to consider environmental problems from such chemicals beyond impacts on the ozone layer.

«This should be an easy lay - up,» said Alexander von Bismarck, executive director of the Environmental Investigation Agency, a non-governmental group that has monitored the ozone treaty for years.

He said that some European countries oppose doing this, saying climate issues should be dealt with under the climate treaties, not the ozone treaty.

More than just an ozone treaty, the Montreal Protocol has also been instrumental in the fight against climate change, as ODS are also powerful greenhouse gases.

Although replacing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) clearly is much easier than weaning the world off fossil fuels, the ethical dimension of the ozone treaty holds lessons for tackling global warming.

It's important to remember that the first draft of the ozone treaty wasn't perfect.

But before the ozone treaty, the ozone crisis was considered an extraordinarily complicated issue.