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HCFC-22
Rather different political coalitions created the Montreal and the Kyoto Protocol. When the latter was negotiated, parties assumed that the two coexist well because the gases are not the same. Suddenly in 2001, three years after Kyoto, a link of such strength appeared that the integrity of the Kyoto Protocol became doubtful. A frenzy of negotiation then led to a safeguard that is in vigour since. The whole underlines Sebastian Oberthür’s observations for relations between regimes. HCFC-22 und das Montreal Protokoll Regime The CDM stalemate is due to the impossibility of weighing benefits between China and other non-Annex B countries. The current situation can continue indefinitely and the geometry “China against the other South” is not explored. HCFC-22 is a typical issue of a BRIC - type that does not fit into a 1980s North - South framework such as the Montreal Protocol. Following its crude accounting focus, the Montreal Protocol deals with the replacement of HCFC-22 in terms of technological choices, for example in the following text. That accounting focus was appropriate for very large, diffuse and wide-spread substances such as R-11 and R-12, less so for HCFC-22 at present at an earlier state of diffusion. Replacing HCFC-22 with Natural Refrigerants
Oberthür S. 2006, Institutional interaction in global environmental governance, Mass.: MIT. |
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