G-7 Environment Ministers Call for Climate Action, Quicker Curb on HFCs

摘要

Environment ministers from Group of Seven major industrialized nations May 16 urged the global community to quickly adopt the Paris Agreement on climate change, to escalate recycling efforts and to phase out using hydrofluorocarbons as a refrigerant. After a two-day meeting in the Japanese sea coast city of Toyoma, representatives of the G-7 countries-Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.-were joined by an official from the European Commission and issued a communique.