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India and US HFC row brews at UN talks in Bangkok

2013-10-25 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

RTCC: India has blocked attempts to curb the use of the highly polluting chemicals used in refrigeration this week, in a move which places them on collision course with the US. During week-long UN negotiations in Bangkok this week, India has stood in the way of a US proposal to move regulation of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. The Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987, was designed to phase out substances that are responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer. The mass support it received at the...

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