Montreal Protocol: North American states invite Parties to join Declaration

The Ozone Secretariat has posted on its website the “Declaration on the Global Transition Away From Hydrochloro

Go to:  http://ozone.unep.org/Meeting_Documents/mop/22mop/HCFC-CFC-Declaration-22mop.pdf

fluorocarbons (HCFCs) and Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)” from the Governments of Canada, the US and Mexico. The Declaration states the signatories’ “intent to pursue further action under the Montreal Protocol aimed at transitioning the world to environmentally sound alternatives to HCFCs and CFCs.” Drafted at MOP-22, the Declaration is currently supported by 90 parties and the EU. Additional parties wishing to associate themselves with the Declaration are invited to do so by 31 March 2011.