In Strasbourg on Wednesday 5 July, the European Parliament gave its consent to ratification by the EU of the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer.
The amendment, on which international agreement was reached in October 2016, seeks to speed up the phasing out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), industrial gases which, in terms of global warming, are 14,000 times more potent than CO2 (see EUROPE 11647). It stipulates that developed countries must set...