Sentences with phrase «treaty on ozone»

A number of lawmakers, foreign governments and environmental advocates had urged the administration to offer an amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty on ozone - depleting substances, calling for the rapid elimination of HFC's.

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«New ozone - destroying gases on the rise; not controlled by 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.

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This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

The history of the Montreal Protocol is one of a dynamic treaty that responds quickly to changes in ozone and climate science, technology, and the needs of Parties and industries dependent on ODS and their substitutes - HFCs.

Montreal IGSD names «that other» climate treaty, 1987's Montreal Protocol «one of the world's most successful multilateral environmental agreements, having phased out 97 percent of almost 100 ozone - depleting substances — placing the ozone layer on a path to recovery later this century».

This was in the wake of the Montreal Protocol, the global treaty on reducing and eliminating various chemicals (particularly, CFCs) which were thought to be ozone layer depleting.

We also look to the Montreal Protocol on Substances the Deplete the Ozone Layer, often considered the world's most successful environmental treaty, for a reality check.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the first treaty to have been ratified by every nation on Earth, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017.

China's announcement on HCFC - 22 is in line with its existing commitments under the Montreal Protocol — the global treaty that has already successfully eliminated other ozone depleting substances similar to HCFC - 22.

Zaelke and the team at IGSD will continue to focus on maximizing the climate - change mitigation potential of the ozone treaty through the destruction of CFCs and HCFCs contained in old air conditioners and other equipment.