<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Faster phaseout of ozone-damaging chemicals agreed to by 191 nations]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Windhunter http://www.grist.org/article/montreal2/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:49:08 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/montreal2/1 HCFCs

Sorry to be unimpressed by the US agreement on this one, but it most likely is because the US doesn't produce any of it.  The big shocker with this agreement is that the developing countries only need to reduce 10% by 2015...they are the ones making this stuff now!  This means this agreement does very little, except lip service.  By the way, China is making so much money from Japanese who are buying HCFC carbon credits that it is more profitable for them to keep producing the stuff and then turn it into a carbon credit, than to stop polluting!  Wake up world..........

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Sorry to be unimpressed by the US agreement on this one, but it most likely is because the US doesn't produce any of it.  The big shocker with this agreement is that the developing countries only need to reduce 10% by 2015...they are the ones making this stuff now!  This means this agreement does very little, except lip service.  By the way, China is making so much money from Japanese who are buying HCFC carbon credits that it is more profitable for them to keep producing the stuff and then turn it into a carbon credit, than to stop polluting!  Wake up world..........

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