Kigali ratifiers climbs to 58
The number of countries to have signed the Kigali Amendment to phase down HFC refrigerants has risen to 58.
The latest additions – Sri Lanka, Panama, Greece, Guinea-Bissau and Kiribati – are announced as the parties to the Montreal Protocol prepare to meet for MOP30 in Quito, Ecuador, next week.
The agreement from Greece brings the number of EU member states to have ratified to 19.
The countries to have ratified in date order:
- 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
- Mexico 25/9/18
- European Union 27/9/18
- Estonia 27/9/18
- Czech Republic 27/9/18
- Austria 27/9/18
- Sri Lanka 28/9/18
- Panama 28/9/18
- Greece 5/10/18
- Guinea-Bissau 22/10/18
- Kiribati 26/10/18