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 over Antarctica—and damage to the protective layer of atmosphere around the world—leaders around the world coordinated action on ozone depleting …
Dear Readers, Global environmental negotiations on issues such as climate change, biodiversity and desertification often seem to be far removed from the everyday reality of more pressing environmental problems like pollution. Even environmental groups sometimes underestimate their importance. As a result, decisions taken by government representatives often go unnoticed and …
Under the Montreal Protocol of 1987, India will receive US $82 million over the next 10 years to help phase out the production of chlorofluorocarbons ( cfc s), of which India is one of the largest producers. The amount was sanctioned at the 29th meeting of the Montreal Protocol held …
WHILE the deadline for developing countries to freeze the production of chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) and halons ended, negotiations on the Montreal Protocol, which was signed in 1987, are expected to hot up once again at a meeting to be held in Beijing in November this year. Developing countries were to freeze …
participants at the 10th Meeting of the Parties to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which was held from November 16-24, 1998, in Cairo, Egypt, came up with recommendations to combat the substances that deplete the ozone layer. The delegates called for a reduction of certain chemicals that were earlier not in …
bangalore-based Trac Fujico Air Systems Ltd has become the country's first indigenous manufacturer to develop and introduce air conditioners (ac s ) that do not use hcfc (hydrochlorofluorocarbon). hcfc , used widely as a refrigerant, is a potential environmental hazard as it contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer. …
ALL those campaigns finally paid off Scientists recently confirmed that the global use of chloroflurocarbons (CFCs) has shown an encouraging downward trend. CFCs suddenly attracted a lot of public, media and scientific attention in the 1980s, when it was discovered that these chemicals had torn a huge hole in the …
BIOLOGY Yellow pigment clue to evolution Bilirubin, responsible for the yellowish tinge in the skin, eyes and nails of jaundice patients, has for the first time been identified in plants. The pigment was discovered in Strelitzia reginae Aiton, commonly know as the Bird of Paradise plant. It is indigenous to …
