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September 19, 2017

UNGA High-Level Event: On Montreal Protocol’s 30th Anniversary Canada & Rwanda Urge Rapid Ratification of Kigali Amendment

Ministers and top UN leaders yesterday urged the world's nations to quickly ratify an international agreement that could prevent up to half a degree of global warming this century.

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September 14, 2017

New Reports Detail Essential Climate Policies Needed to Limit Warming Below 2°Celsius

Two new studies released today find that global temperature increases can be limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as global leaders have pledged through the Paris Agreement, but only if the world quickly pursues three cooling approaches.

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July 7, 2017

The Quest for a Better Air Conditioner

There’s no single solution for climate change, but there is one that would be more effective than others.
What do you think it is?

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June 14, 2017

Élysée Palace Announces Opening of IGSD Office in Paris

The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) became the first climate research group to accept French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to France to work together on the fight against climate change.

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May 4, 2017

New strategy needed to cut the rate of global warming in half by 2042 say top scientists

Governments must urgently aim to cut the rate of global warming in half over the next 25 years, a group of leading climate scientists concludes today. Meeting this “near-term goal” would involve taking much more rapid action than is envisaged in the groundbreaking Paris Agreement, and require aggressively reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants along with long-lived carbon dioxide.

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October 14, 2016

Nations Agree to Kigali Amendment: Largest Near-Term Temperature Reduction from Single Agreement

Warming caused by one of the six main greenhouse gases will be taken out of the climate system through the Kigali Amendment agreed in the early morning hours today in Rwanda. The amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out HFCs is the largest temperature reduction ever achieved by a single agreement.

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September 22, 2016

Philanthropic Group Launches World’s Largest Energy Efficiency Investment

Today Bill Gates and other philanthropic foundations announced fast-start funding to maximize energy efficiency in parallel with an ambitious HFC amendment under the Montreal Protocol.

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September 21, 2016

Watch: Reducing HFCs with the world’s most successful environmental treaty

Watch: Reducing HFCs with the world’s most successful environmental treaty

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September 19, 2016

California Governor Signs World’s Toughest Super Pollutant Law

Today California Governor Jerry Brown signed the nation’s—and the world’s— strictest law against powerful short-lived super pollutants – SB 1383 – pushing the state’s near-term climate mitigation efforts one step further.

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September 9, 2016

The Climate’s Low-Hanging Fruit

Next month, signatories to the 1989 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer will convene in Kigali, Rwanda, to consider an amendment to the treaty that would gradually reduce, and eventually eliminate, the use of HFCs

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19 Sep

UNGA High-Level Event: On Montreal Protocol’s 30th Anniversary Canada & Rwanda Urge Rapid Ratification of Kigali Amendment

Ministers and top UN leaders yesterday urged the world's nations to quickly ratify an international agreement that could prevent up to half a degree of global warming this century.
18 Sep

UNGA High-Level Event Monday on Montreal Protocol’s 30th Anniversary Canada & Rwanda Urge Rapid Ratification of Kigali Amendment

Today at 6:30 p.m. at UN Headquarters in New York, Conference Room 11.the Minister of Natural Resources of the Republic of Rwanda, Dr. Vincent Biruta, and the Minister of Environment and Climate Change of Canada, Catherine McKenna, will host a high-level event on Ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
14 Sep

New Reports Detail Essential Climate Policies Needed to Limit Warming Below 2°Celsius

Two new studies released today find that global temperature increases can be limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as global leaders have pledged through the Paris Agreement, but only if the world quickly pursues three cooling approaches.
13 Jul

Tata Motors and MAHLE partner together to develop a prototype Secondary Loop Mobile Air Conditioning System on a vehicle

Tata Motors Limited and MAHLE, one of the world’s 20 largest suppliers to the automotive industry, have signed a joint development agreement for designing and developing a Secondary Loop Mobile Air Conditioning System (SL–MAC), under the aegis of United Nations Environment. MAHLE and Tata Motors, along with the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD), which is coordinating the project, received funding for developing the SL-MAC system from the CCAC.

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Primer on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

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