TITLE

Montreal Protocol goals remain the same

AUTHOR(S)
Mazurkiewicz, Greg
PUB. DATE
December 1999
SOURCE
Air Conditioning Heating & Refrigeration News;12/20/99, Vol. 208 Issue 16, p9
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on the failure of a meeting held in Beijing, China about speeding up the phaseout of chlorofluorocarbons. Requirement for financing the efforts of developing countries; Schedule for the global phaseout of the refrigerants.
ACCESSION #
2669000

Tags: CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS -- International cooperation;  REFRIGERANTS -- International cooperation

 

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