Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics of Energy -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: teevee who wrote (36234)	12/7/2012 10:36:42 AM
From: Land Shark	Respond to of 86356

This is worse than the 50 new coal burning power plants being commissioned each and every week in China alone. This is pure unmitigated nonsense. CFC levels in the atmosphere are now levelled off at 289 ppt and haven't changed since '89. As a matter of fact, they're dropping slowly. This is thanks to the international treaty on CFC emissions (which no doubt the likes of you opposed). The emissions from the "green opportunist" manufacturers (as you characterize them), are insignificant.

To: teevee who wrote (36234)

12/7/2012 10:39:47 AM

From: Wharf Rat

Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 86356

(Xinhua News Agency July 1, 2007)

China Phases Out CFC Production

Adjust font size:

The last six Chinese producers of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon have agreed to stop producing the chemical.

The six factories signed a deal with the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in Changshu, east Jiangsu Province Saturday.

The move marks that China has honored its promise to phase out CFC two and a half years ahead of the schedule in the Montreal protocol on banning ODS, said an SEPA official.

A total production capacity of 122,000 tons will be phased out according to the deal signed by the SEPA, China National Chemical Construction Company and the six factories, two in Jiangsu and four in Zhejiang.

The signing ceremony was witnessed by representatives from the World Bank, the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, the United Nations Environment Program and the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, are used in refrigeration and air conditioning and have been identified as the main substance damaging the ozone shield.

The ozone layer shields the earth from the harmful ultraviolet-B radiation of the sun. It also completely screens out lethal UV-C radiation.

Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, developed countries have agreed to phase out the chemicals by Jan. 1, 2005, while developing countries have a Jan. 1, 2015 deadline.

China had pledged to phase out major ODS production and consumption by 2010.

(Xinhua News Agency July 1, 2007)

china.org.cn
==

The World Bank on Thursday approved a grant of US$73 million from the Montreal Protocol Investment Fund to China to support its efforts to meet its HCFC consumption and production phase-out obligations.

Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) are ozone-depleting substances (ODS) with high global-warming potential and subject to consumption and production control measures of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The Montreal Protocol requires gradual phase-out starting from 2013 and leading to a complete phase-out of HCFC consumption and production by 2030 for developing countries known as "Article 5" countries
china.org.cn