{"id":120886,"date":"2021-08-23T07:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=120886"},"modified":"2021-08-23T07:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:25:48","slug":"india-decides-to-ratify-kigali-amendment-to-montreal-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/india-decides-to-ratify-kigali-amendment-to-montreal-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"India decides to ratify Kigali Amendment to Montreal Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Q. Consider the following statements regarding Kigali Amendment-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>It is an amendment in Montreal protocol 1989.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Recently United States, China and India has ratified the amendment.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Montreal protocol is related to maintaining the temperature of the earth.<br>Which of the above statement \/ s is \/ are not true?<\/strong><br>a) Only 1<br>b) Only 1 &amp; 2<br>c) Only 3<br>d) All statements are correct.<br><strong>ANSWER:- c)<br>RELATED FACTS:-<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Following similar decisions by the United States and China in the past few months, India on 18TH August, 2021 decided to ratify a key amendment to the 1989 ozone-saving Montreal Protocol negotiated five years ago.<\/li><li>The Kigali Amendment, named after the Rwadan capital where it was negotiated, enables the phase-out of hydroflurocarbons, a set of chemicals notorious for their capacity to warm the planet.<\/li><li>The 2016 amendment was seen as one of the most important breakthroughs in the global efforts to fight climate change, because the HFCs, a set of 19 gases used extensively in the air-conditioning and refrigerant industry, are known to be hundreds, even thousands, of times more potent than carbon dioxide in their ability to cause global warming.<\/li><li>It is estimated that a complete phase-out of HFCs by 2050 would prevent about 0.5 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures by the end of this century.<\/li><li>This important instrument, therefore, is crucial to achieving the target of restraining the increase in global temperatures to 2 degree Celsius from pre-industrial times.<\/li><li>As pointed out by a recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the average temperatures of the planet has already risen by about 1.1 degree Celsius.<\/li><li>The decision to ratify the amendment was taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet on Wednesday.<\/li><li>It comes close on the heels of similar decisions by the United States and China, the world\u2019s largest producers and consumers of HFCs.<\/li><li>According to a recent factsheet issued by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a US-based environmental organisation, and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), 122 countries had ratified the Kigali Amendment by the end of July.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; ABHISHEK KUMAR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-decides-to-ratify-kigali-amendment-to-montreal-protocol-7460521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-decides-to-ratify-kigali-amendment-to-montreal-protocol-7460521\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Consider the following statements regarding Kigali Amendment- It is an amendment in Montreal protocol 1989. Recently United States, China and India has ratified the amendment. 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