Sec. 216. Sense of Congress on the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol
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It is the sense of Congress that— hydrofluorocarbons are highly potent greenhouse gases; the United States must work cooperatively with the international community to significantly reduce hydrofluorocarbons in commerce; the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, adopted in October 2016 at the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali, Rwanda, provides the legal framework for global cooperation on reducing hydrofluorocarbons in global commerce; the United States is a leader in chemical and technological innovation that is at the forefront of developing safer chemical alternatives to hydrofluorocarbons and the technologies to use those new replacement chemicals; industrial sectors in other countries, such as the People’s Republic of China, are working quickly to catch up to the United States in developing and marketing chemical and technological alternatives that support the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons in global commerce in accordance with the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol; and United States chemical and refrigeration industries are disadvantaged in the global marketplace because the United States has not ratified the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
It should be the policy of the United States— to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol; and to enact legislation providing sufficient authorities for the United States to comply with the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. In this section, the term Montreal Protocol means the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, done at Montreal September 16, 1987.