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November 30, 2015 by IGSD COP21 Leaders Event: President Obama Reminds World of Progress via Montreal

President Obama reminded the world of the success of the Montreal Protocol, an international climate agreement that continues to provide bold mitigation, at the Leaders Event opening of COP21. “Earlier this month in Dubai, after years of delay, the world agreed to work together to cut the super-pollutants known as HFCs. That’s progress.”
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 November 30, 2015
November 12, 2014 by Giselle Obama, Xi Climate Agreement Opens Door to Paris Success in 2015

World’s top two climate polluters agree on fast action to cut short and long-lived emissions “President Obama’s historic agreement today with President Xi in China is the kind of bold action needed to reinvigorate the world’s efforts to slow and eventually reverse climate pollution before the most severe climate impacts become irreversible”, said Durwood Zaelke, […]
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 November 12, 2014
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December 9, 2013 by IGSD The Montreal Protocol, a Little Treaty That Could

Here is a remarkable fact about global warming: It might be twice as bad right now were it not for a treaty negotiated by a conservative American president, for an entirely different purpose, based on motives no one has ever quite understood.
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 December 9, 2013
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September 4, 2013 by IGSD Broad Coalition Pledges to Cut “Super Greenhouse Gases”

An international coalition has agreed to begin working towards domestic regulation aimed at reducing the use of HFCs, compounds commonly used as refrigerants but referred to as “super greenhouse gases” for their particularly negative impact on global warming.
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 September 4, 2013
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August 8, 2012 by IGSD Profits on Carbon Credits Drive Output of a Harmful Gas

When the United Nations wanted to help slow climate change, it established what seemed a sensible system. Greenhouse gases were rated based on their power to warm the atmosphere. The more dangerous the gas, the more that manufacturers in developing nations would be compensated as they reduced their emissions.
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 August 8, 2012