Ozone-depleting chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochloroflorocarbons and Halon are critical for life as we know it.Aand, at the same time, the Ozone Layer is critical to protect life from the sun's ultra violet radiation. Therefore, we need to work diligently to implement logical solutions that are both practical and affordable. This is our mission.
While a consultant to the United Nations Environmental Program, our founder Seaton Gras wrote two country programs for implementing the Montreal Protocol. Now with the new Kkgali accord, Seaton will be working to advice companies and national governments on how they can build a creative solution for managing Ozone Depleting Chemicals. Back in 1989, Seaton built one of the very first machines to recover CFCs from automobile a/c units or refrigeration equipment. He traveled accross the United States as well as Australia, Zimbabewe, Denmark and the Seycheles to promote sensible CFC managaement.
The talks in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, did not draw the same spotlight as the climate change accord forged in Paris last year. But the outcome could have an equal or even greater impact on efforts to slow the heating of the planet.
President Obama called the deal “an ambitious and far-reaching solution to this looming crisis.”
Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking to fellow negotiators in Kigali, said, “It is likely the single most important step we could take at this moment to limit the warming of our planet and limit the warming for generations to come.”
“It is,” Mr. Kerry added, “the biggest thing we can do in one giant swoop.”
While the Paris agreement included pledges by nearly every country to cut emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the fossil fuels that power vehicles, electric plants and factories, the new Kigali deal has a single target: chemical coolants called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, used in air-conditioners and refrigerators."
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