International CFC limits to take effect.International CFC CFC See: Controlled foreign corporation limits to take effect Last year, a treaty was drawn up to protect stratospheric strat·o·spher·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the stratosphere. 2. Extremely or unreasonably high: "money borrowed at today's stratospheric rates of interest" ozone by dramatically cutting 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) emissions and freezing halon ha·lon n. Any of several halocarbons used as fire-extinguishing agents. halon Any of several compounds consisting of one or two carbon atoms combined with bromine and one or more other halogens. emissions. Ultimately signed by 47 nations, this Montreal Protocol aims to reduce global CFC emissions to 50 percent below 1986 levels by the year 2000 (SN: 9/26/87, p.196). It now appears those controls on ozone-destroying pollutants will go into effect at the earliest possible date -- next Jan. 1. Treaty enactment requires ratification by the European Community (EC) and 11 countries representing two-thirds of global CFC consumption. According to the United Nations, 14 countries -- representing more than two-thirds of CFC production -- have already ratified it. Ella Krucoff, in the EC's Washington, D.C., office, says EC ratification will be forwarded to the United Nations "within the next few weeks." |
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