Global efforts to repair ozone layer are in jeopardy The methyl bromide ban

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 25, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Margot Wallstrom
International Herald Tribune
03-25-2004
An international meeting in Montreal this week must succeed in putting back on track global efforts to repair the world's protective ozone layer. At stake is our future safety from the sun's dangerous ultraviolet radiation, which causes skin cancer, reduces human immunity to disease and destroys plants and sea plankton.A previous conference, in Nairobi last November, collapsed over the high exemptions that industrialized countries, in particular the United States, requested to a ban on methyl bromide, a highly ozone-depleting ...

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