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World Bank - Global Environment Facility Program, Ozone Depletion
| Description: | Stratospheric ozone is constantly being created and destroyed by natural photochemical processes. In recent decades, however, human activity involving the release of certain chemicals (chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), halons, and a broad range of industrial chemicals) has dramatically accelerated the destruction of the ozone layer, a shield around the Earth which protects life from dangerous ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. The Montreal Protocol stipulates that the production and consumption of compounds that deplete ozone in the stratosphere are to be phased out by 2000 (2005 for methyl chloroform). |
| Type: | Website |
| URL: | http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/essd/essdext.nsf/45ByDocName/ThemesOzoneDepletion |
| Date entered: | 2002-07-15 |
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