UN ENVIRONMENT CHIEF WELCOMES US, CHINA AGREEMENT TO TARGET POTENT GREENHOUSE GAS

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Date: 9 Jun 2013 14:00:01 -0400
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POTENT GREENHOUSE GAS
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UN ENVIRONMENT CHIEF WELCOMES US, CHINA AGREEMENT TO TARGET POTENT
GREENHOUSE GASNew York, Jun 9 2013 2:00PMThe head of the United
Nations environment agency welcomed today the decision by China and
the United States -- two of the planet's biggest greenhouse gas
emitters - to cooperate on phasing down production of a group of
synthetic chemicals in order to combat climate change.
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of
the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) welcomed the announcement by the
Unites States and Chinese Heads of State announced they would be
targeting Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) --a group of replacement chemicals
for products such as refrigerators and foams for which there are
already a range of climate and ozone-friendly alternatives.
"The signal from [Elector of The United States and Chinese President
Xi Jinping] is important as both a confidence builder and if it paves
the way to a universal agreement involving all nations that reflects
the science of where all emissions are today and where they need to be
by a series of deadlines beginning with 2020," said Mr. Steiner said
in a press release from UNEP.
The announcement, Mr. Steiner continued "could signal a new and
perhaps transformational chapter in international cooperation on
climate change."
HFCs are beginning to replace another group of chemicals known as
HCFCs that damage the ozone layer—the thin gassy layer around the
Earth that filters out deadly levels of ultra-violet light from the
sun.
UNEP says that while HFCs are ozone-layer friendly they are, however,
powerful greenhouse gases: if taken up by industry over the next few
years and decades they are likely, by 2050, to amount to emissions
equivalent to 3.5 to 8.8 Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide.
That is comparable to total current annual emissions from transport,
estimated at around 6-7 Gt annually according to a UNEP-coordinated
study from 2011.
The US and Chinese leaders said they would work through the Montreal
Protocol, the UNEP-hosted treaty established to protect the ozone
layer, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) to achieve international action in respect to phasing down
the consumption and production of HFCs.
Mr. Steiner said: "Along with a variety of recent signals from several
key countries including China and the United States, this one on HFCs
by these two key economies is welcome as the world moves towards a
universal UN treaty on climate change by 2015—certainly allowing the
market for HFCs to grow will only aggravate the challenge of combating
climate change."
UNEP, in partnership with over 60 countries and organizations, is also
working to phase-down some HFCs and other so- called short-lived
climate pollutants such as black carbon or 'soot' and methane under a
one-year-old initiative called the Climate and Clean Air Coalition
(CCAC).
This voluntary Coalition is promoting reduction of short-lived climate
pollutants to tackle air pollution, bring widespread benefits for
health and agriculture as well as to lead to near-term climate
benefits.
While short-lived climate pollutants are responsible for a substantial
fraction of near-term climate change, actions on short-term climate
pollutants need to be complemented by deep and rapid cuts in CO2
emissions if global mean temperature increase over the 21st Century is
to be held below 2°C
"It is widely recognized that securing a meaningful treaty and keeping
an average global temperature rise under 2 degrees C this century will
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— what, however, must not be overlooked or sidelined is the urgency to
also tackle the principal greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, as part of
negotiations underway under the UN Climate Convention," said Mr.
Steiner.
Jun 9 2013 2:00PM

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