Canada and the world take a major step in fighting climate change
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November 20, 2017 - Montréal, Quebec Climate change is a global problem that requires a global solution. Canada is committed to working with other countries to promote clean growth solutions at home and around the world. Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, celebrated a historic step in tackling climate change with the ratification of the Kigali Amendment. The Kigali Amendment is a global agreement to reduce hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, a type of greenhouse gas that warms the planet even more quickly than carbon dioxide. Implementing the Kigali Amendment could avoid up to 0.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the...