India acts for ozone. (The Beat).Four of India's largest chlorofluorocarbon chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) Any of several organic compounds containing carbon, fluorine, and chlorine. A number of different CFCs have been made and sold under the trade name Freon. (CFC CFC See: Controlled foreign corporation ) manufacturers voluntarily agreed on 2 May 2002 to use cleaner production technologies to help reduce "rogue" CFC emissions--those emitted during manufacturing--as well as emissions of other chemicals that can harm the ozone layer or local air quality. The manufacturers, whose combined 1998 output accounted for 16% of the world's total production of CFCs, are working toward completely phasing out their production by 2010. This agreement is part of an initiative sponsored by the Indian government and UNEP UNEP United Nations Environment Program(me) UNEP Unbundled Network Element Platform UNEP University of Northeastern Philippines that also includes a campaign to help medium and small manufacturers of items including refrigerators, air conditioners, and aerosol products find cleaner alternatives to CFCs and to help curb smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain and illicit sales of CFCs across South and Southeast Asia. |
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