Saving the Ozone

Starring [LTOR] Brian Gardiner Jonathan Shanklin and Joseph Farman

Indian report will stir up Copenhagen meet

An Indian government report that criticises and asks for several amendments in the Montreal Protocol is expected to generate heated debate among …

Anxiety helps hasten ozone safety deadlines

Despite Third World pleas for generous grace periods, Montreal Protocol nations have moved forward the phase-out dates for chemicals threatening …

Substance Abuse

The Montreal Protocol was meant to eliminate Ozone-depleting substances. It is turning out to be a technology trap for Indian industry. And …

Here comes the ozone brigade

Indian manufacturers of CFCs are no longer fatalistic about winding up, but they are banding together to overcome ploys that will gag attempts to …

The disturbing Ozone alert

Tracking the phase out of ozone depleting substances

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 …

Montreal Protocol: A successful treaty?

Even as the fate of HFCs hangs in uncertainty, there remains much at stake for the Montreal Protocol

Climate of irrationality

Developed and developing countries are divided over regulating super greenhouse gases under Montreal Protocol

Diplomacy deficit

India wavers on including hydrofluorocarbons in Montreal Protocol meet agenda

Why should progress be putrid?

The road ahead

While the protocol has succeeded in lowering consumption of CFCs, developing countries still bear the cost burden of using and developing substitutes

Measure for measure

Some countries have failed to live up to commitments. But measures to ensure compliance to the protocol do not address the issue of North-South …

Hush!

The refrigerant and air conditioning industry in India remains quiet about its moves post 2002 when it stops using chlorofluorocarbons. Is it …

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 …

Coming out of coma

A decline in its funds and erosion in its mandate have made the United Nations Environment Programme virtually ineffective. Bharat H Desai looks …

Halons decreasing

Playing it cool with climate warmings

Trading with environment

The difference is in the recipe

Arctic ozone depletion creats panic

Science backs the politically correct

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The phase continues

India's time threatens to run out as the ozone phase-out fund goes miserly

To fix the hole...

...India to get $82 million to phase out production of CFCs, an ozone-depleting substance