Hungary is 15th EU member to sign Kigali
The list of nations to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol has grown to 48, with Hungary becoming the 15th European member state to sign.
In addition to Hungary, the other new additions are Tonga, Uruguay, Senegal and Niger.
The global agreement to phase down HFCs will enter into force on January 1, 2019.
The countries to sign in date order are:
- Mali 31/3/17
- Micronesia 12/5/17
- Marshall Islands 15/5/17
- Rwanda 23/5/17
- Palau 29/8/17
- Norway 6/9/17
- Comoros 16/9/17
- Chile 19/9/17
- Tuvalu 21/9/17
- North Korea 21/9/17
- Australia 27/10/17
- Canada 3/11/17
- Maldives 13/11/17
- UK 14/11/17
- Finland 14/11/17
- Germany 14/11/17
- Laos 16/11/17
- Luxembourg 16/11/17
- Slovakia 16/11/17
- Sweden 17/11/17
- Trinidad and Tobago 17/11/17
- Malawi 21/11/17
- Côte d’Ivoire 29/11/17
- Ecuador 22/1/18
- Netherlands 8/2/18
- Gabon 28/2/18
- Togo 8/3/18
- Ireland 12/3/18
- Benin 19/3/18
- Samoa 23/3/18
- France 29/3/18
- Barbados 19/4/18
- Vanuatu 20/4/18
- Niue 24/4/18
- Bulgaria 1/5/2018
- Costa Rica 23/5/18
- Grenada 29/5/18
- Belgium 4/6/2018
- Uganda 21/6/18
- Portugal 17/7/18
- Lithuania 24/7/18
- Burkina Faso 26/7/18
- Latvia 17/8/18
- Niger 29/8/18
- Senegal 31/8/18
- Uruguay 12/9/18
- Hungary 14/9/18
- Tonga 17/9/18