Healing the ozone layer through diplomacy
The Montreal Protocol shows what is possible when science, diplomacy, and business cooperate to implement international environmental agreements. When the people became aware of a hole in the ozone layer
CFCs
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Why should progress be putrid?
Last time I wrote about the cycle of poison, where one toxic substance is replaced with another, equally toxic, one. This cycle, I wrote, is exactly like the modern eco nomy where business is
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AC makers unsure about gas import rule
manufacturers of air-conditioners (acs) and producers of refrigerant gas are at loggerhead. With the Union government denying the former the licence to import refrigerant gas
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Unholy ritual
Antarctic ozone hole again starts expanding
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Overview: Pollution unmasked
The Green Rating Project unveils the environmental face of India’s caustic-chlorine industry
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Between common salt and the Ozone Hole
CSE rates the caustic chlorine industry, which turns common salt into lethal chemicals and leaves a deadly mercury trail... <br> <font size="1" color="blue"> Read full article </font> <p> <font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> <a hre
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Chief culprit
Study warns that in the future climate change could be primarily responsible for ozone depletion
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Fig leaf for the business world
That is what the Montreal Protocol, meant to do away with ozone depleting substances, has become. India's phase out programme under the protocol is only helping the big businesses in the country earn some quick bucks. About US $75 million of public money
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A case of myopia?
For manufacturers of ozone destorying substances in the South its time to make a tough call. The protocol brings the bigwigs of the North-based chemical industry to their doorstep. Will they fight by leapfrogging to the best alternatives and beat the comp
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Hush!
The refrigerant and air conditioning industry in India remains quiet about its moves post 2002 when it stops using chlorofluorocarbons. Is it also making plans to get "compensation" to do nothing? And in this carnival of big business what chances do the
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Hostile to ozone
Four chemicals said to be ecofriendly are destroying the ozone layer