{"id":21296,"date":"2016-10-15T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=21296"},"modified":"2016-10-17T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:45:29","slug":"statement-attributable-to-the-spokesman-for-the-secretary-general-on-an-amendment-to-the-montreal-protocol-to-limit-near-term-warming-of-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/10\/statement-attributable-to-the-spokesman-for-the-secretary-general-on-an-amendment-to-the-montreal-protocol-to-limit-near-term-warming-of-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on an Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to Limit Near-term Warming of the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary-General welcomes the adoption by governments meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, of a critically important amendment to the Montreal Protocol phasing-down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). HFCs are a powerful, short-lived greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. As HFCs are also the fastest-growing of all greenhouse gases, curbing their use will help limit near-term warming of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol builds on the strong global momentum for multilateral efforts to address climate change, including the landmark Paris Agreement, which will enter into force 4 November; the adoption last week of a global, market-based mechanism for emission reductions by the international aviation industry; and other multilateral efforts under the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵFCCC) process.<\/p>\n<p>Adoption of the amendment on HFCs will provide considerable benefits in the coming decades and help advance the Sustainable Development Goals. Significantly, the global phase-down of HFCs could avoid up to half a degree of global warming by the end of this century, providing a major boost for efforts to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius as stated in the Paris Agreement and to pursue efforts toward 1.5 degrees.<br \/>\nThe Secretary-General calls for continued collaboration and cooperation by all sectors of society in implementing these timely and much-needed agreements to reduce the risks of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary-General welcomes the adoption by governments meeting in Kigali,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}