Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds that— short-lived climate pollutants account for 40 percent of global warming impacting the atmosphere, even though those pollutants account for a much smaller percentage of warming agents, by weight; reducing short-lived climate pollutant emissions could— prevent more than 2,000,000 premature deaths each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); prevent more than 30,000,000 tons of crop losses each year, according to UNEP; cut the rate of sea-level rise by 25 percent, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; cut the rate of warming by up to 0.6 degrees Celsius by 2050, according to UNEP; and significantly contribute toward the overall global target of holding increased warming below 2 degrees Celsius; the United States is— 1 of the largest consumers of hydrofluorocarbons in the world; and providing significant innovation in the development of low global warming potential (low-GWP) alternatives; the United States could serve as a leader and exemplar of responsibly phasing down hydrofluorocarbon production and consumption; the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has been an extraordinarily successful model for protecting the stratospheric ozone layer and achieving significant climate protection cobenefits; and since that treaty was signed in 1987, there has been a 98-percent reduction in ozone-depleting substances; and the interagency Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, released in March 2014, outlines a proactive agenda for reducing methane leakage and waste throughout the United States economy.