India Focus: Pivotal Opportunity in Bangkok to Move Forward on Phasing Down Potent Heat-Trapping Gases, HFCs

This week in Bangkok, India has the key opportunity to join other parties to the Montreal Protocol to make progress toward a global phase down of the super-potent heat-trapping chemicals known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). This is the first meeting of the Montreal Protocol since Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed in September to support “using the expertise and the institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and the consumption of HFCs.”