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200 Countries Sign International Agreement

HFC prohibitions added to CFC ban to stop ozone loss

• http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/nations-sign-major-deal-curb-warming-chemicals-used-air-conditioning

• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/world/africa/kigali-deal-hfc-air-conditioners.html

The Kigali accord is “much, much, much stronger than Paris,” said Durwood Zaelke, the president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, a research organization. “This is a mandatory treaty. Governments are obligated to comply.”

The Kigali deal has been seven years in the making. It is not a stand-alone agreement but an amendment to an existing environmental treaty, the Montreal Protocol, the landmark 1987 pact designed to close the hole in the ozone layer by banning ozone-depleting coolants called chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Montreal_Protocol

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All Africa - http://allafrica.com/stories/201610140008.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/201610140544.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/201610130030.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/201610140699.html

BBC (UK) - http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37665529

Business-Standard (India) - http://www.business-standard.com/article/government-press-release/india-welcomes-landmark-hfc-agreement-at-kigali-116101500563_1.html

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/hfc-phaseout-india-needs-to-seize-the-moment-on-climate-change-comment-special-to-ians-116101400184_1.html

CBC (Canada) - http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hydrofluorocarbons-agreement-1.3806786

Christian Science Monitor (US) - http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Inhabit/2016/1015/Almost-200-nations-pass-gigantic-HFC-greenhouse-gas-agreement

Climate Change News - http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/10/14/john-kerry-urges-ambition-as-hfc-talks-go-into-extra-time/

http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/10/13/india-domestic-action-smooths-path-to-hfc-deal-in-kigali/

CNN (US) - http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/15/africa/montreal-climate-change-hfc-kigali/

Deutsche Welle (Germany) - http://www.dw.com/en/nearly-200-nations-have-reached-an-agreement-to-phase-out-hfc-greenhouse-gases/a-36049841

Economic Times (India) - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/pm-narendra-modi-hails-historic-kigali-agreement/articleshow/54873022.cms

Engadget - https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/15/kigali-amendment-reached-to-cut-use-of-planet-warming-hfcs/

Fox News - http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/14/ap-explains-why-potent-greenhouse-gases-are-meeting-focus.html

Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/single-most-important-step-to-fight-climate-change-take-1787837560

Himalayan Times - https://thehimalayantimes.com/environment/kerry-meets-chinese-indian-ministers-cutting-hfc-greenhouse-gases/

Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/greenhouse-gases-deal_us_5802309de4b0e8c198a86131

Independent (UK) - http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/hfcs-deal-rwanda-climate-global-warming-hfc-gases-kigali-john-kerry-air-con-a7362781.html

India Today - http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ld-hfc-2last/1/787713.html

Japan News - http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003282446

LA Times (US) - http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-global-deal-climate-change-20161015-snap-story.html

Nature - http://www.nature.com/news/nations-agree-to-ban-refrigerants-that-worsen-climate-change-1.20810

Nature World News - http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/30097/20161014/cfcs-substitute-hfcs-banned-minimize-greenhouse-gases.htm

NPR (US) - http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/15/498056486/nations-clinch-landmark-pact-to-fight-climate-change

NRDC / National Resources Defense Council - https://www.nrdc.org/experts/david-doniger/countries-adopt-kigali-amendment-phase-down-hfcs

NY Times (US) - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/world/africa/kigali-deal-hfc-air-conditioners.html

Radio Pakistan - http://www.radio.gov.pk/15-Oct-2016/kigali-deal-reached-on-hfc-greenhouse-gases

Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-climatechange-idUSKCN12D17G

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/reuters/kerry-says-nations-working-to-reach-deal-on-cutting-hfc-gases/42516872

RFI (France-World) - http://en.rfi.fr/environment/20161013-world-leaders-need-scrap-greenhouse-gases-rwanda-summit

Science Magazine - http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/nations-sign-major-deal-curb-warming-chemicals-used-air-conditioning

Scotsman - http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/obama-hails-ambitious-global-deal-to-curb-powerful-greenhouse-gases-1-4259510

Sputnik News (Russia) - https://sputniknews.com/world/201610151046356799-hydrofluorocarbon-rwanda-agreement/

The Guardian (UK) - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/15/hfc-greenhouse-gases-emissions-coolant

The Gulf Today - http://gulftoday.ae/portal/0eb24278-aec4-483c-835e-50845bdecde6.aspx

The Hill (US) - http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/301158-world-leaders-reach-sweeping-deal-to-cut-greenhouse-gases

The Hindu (India) - http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/india-to-ban-release-of-potent-greenhouse-gas/article9216109.ece

The Straits Times (Singapore) - http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/singapore-among-nearly-200-nations-in-landmark-deal-to-cut-use-of-hfc

Time - http://time.com/4532377/climate-change-kigali-agreement-air-conditioners/

UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55310#.WAJ8Kcmapmw

UPI - http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/10/15/Countries-reach-monumental-climate-change-deal-to-phase-out-hydrofluorocarbons/5171476544423/

Voice of America - http://www.voanews.com/a/world-climate/3552691.html

Vox - http://www.vox.com/2016/10/15/13292878/montreal-protocol-cut-hfcs

Whitehouse - US President / Office of the Press Secretary - https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/15/statement-president-montreal-protocol

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