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Hopes were high Friday that world envoys at a meeting in Rwanda will agree a deal to phase out the use of a potent greenhouse gas used in refrigerators and air conditioners. Officials travelling with US Secretary of State John Kerry said they were optimistic that up to 200 nations would agree to end the use of hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs. Banning HFCs -- also found in aerosols and foam insulation -- could slow the global temperature increase by half a degree Celsius by the end of the century.

 

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