11 JUNE 2013
Over the weekend President Obama and Chinese President Xi agreed to work together to phase-down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) -- a “super greenhouse gas.” They agreed to work under the Montreal Protocol -- the 25-year-old treaty that successfully saved the ozone layer and is now working to ensure the safety and climate friendliness of the replacement chemicals. This is very important since China had joined a limited number of countries in resisting the effort by more than 110 countries to secure an agreement to phase-down these chemicals.
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Source: The Huffington Post