Pressure is on India to cut back HFC gas
Governments hope to thrash out third deal to limit climate change, as pressure mounts for India to cut back on greenhouse gases
Oslo/Washington — INDIA will face pressure to speed up its plans for cutting greenhouse gases used in refrigerators, air conditioning and aerosols when governments meet for four days this week to hammer out what would be a third key deal to limit climate change in a month.About 150 nations begin meeting in Rwanda on Monday to try to agree on a phase-down of factory-made hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases. A quick phase-down of HFCs could make a big contribution to slowing climate change, avoiding perhaps 0.5°C of a projected rise in average temperatures by 2100, scientists say.But India wants a peak in poor nations’ rising emissions only in 2031, to give industries time to adapt. More than 100 other nations favour a peak in 2021, including African states, the US and the EU."It really does matter how early the agreement kicks in," said Jake Schmidt, of the US Natural Resources Defense Council, which thinks India’s proposal would add the equivalent of almost a year of global carbon emissio...
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