Reach historic agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – RadioFórmula

October 15, 2016

The agreement divided the countries into three groups with different timelines to reduce the use of gases of hydrofluorocarbons made in the factory, according to minister of Rwanda, Vinncent Biruta.

Kigali.- The representatives of almost 200 countries have reached on Saturday an agreement that aims to reduce the use of so-called greenhouse gases, in a gradual process that will begin in 2019.

The agreement divided the countries into three groups with different timelines to reduce the use of gases of hydrofluorocarbons made in the factory, according to minister of Rwanda, Vinncent Biruta.

The developed nations, including most of Europe and the united States, will reduce your gas use by 10 percent before 2019, reaching 85 percent by 2036.

More than 100 developing countries, including China, the worst polluter in the world, will freeze your use of the gas for 2024.

A small group of countries, including India, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and some Gulf states negotiated a start later in 2029.

That date is two years earlier than India, the third worst polluter of the world, he had initially suggested.

At the end of the 28 Meeting of Signatory Countries of the Montreal Protocol that was held in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, nations will seek to dramatically reduce the level of refrigerant gases, used in refrigeration appliances or air conditioners.

The agreement, announced by the rwandan minister for Natural Resources Vincent Biruta, amending the Protocol, signed in 1987 to preserve the ozone layer, and could avoid a warming of 0.5 degrees during this century.

“last year in Paris we promised to keep the world safe from the worst effects of climate change. Today, we are fulfilling that promise,” said the executive director of the United Nations Program for Environment (UNEP), Erik Solheim.

The secretary of us State, John Kerry, who helped forge the agreement in a series of meetings in the capital of Rwanda, said it was a great victory for the Earth.

“it Is a step forward monumental, that responds to the needs of individual nations, and give us the opportunity to reduce the heating of the planet by a whole half of a degree centigrade,” said Kerry, reported the BBC.

“of course it is a historic day,” said Durwood Zaelke, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD), a participant from a long time ago in the negotiations of the Montreal Protocol.

supporters argue that this convention in Kigali will build on the foundation laid by the climate agreement of Paris, signed by more than 190 countries last December, and which becomes operational at the beginning of November.

they Also point to the past history of the Montreal Protocol-over 100 f-gases have been removed in the history of 30 years of the agreement. Once the regulation has been approved, the industry rapidly developing alternatives.

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