Kyoto projects harm ozone layer: U.N. official - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Kyoto projects harm ozone layer: U.N. official
Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:07AM EDT

By Gerard Wynn

LONDON (Reuters) - The biggest emissions-cutting projects
under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming have directly
contributed to an increase in the production of gases that
destroy the ozone layer, a senior U.N. official says.

In addition, evidence suggests that the same projects, in
developing countries, have deliberately raised their
emissions of greenhouse gases only to destroy these and
therefore claim more carbon credits, said Stanford
University's Michael Wara.

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The most popular type of project has been to destroy a
potent greenhouse gas known as HFC 23, one of a family
of so-called hydrofluorocarbons, in China and India.

The problem is that HFC 23 is a waste product in the
manufacture of a refrigerant gas which damages the ozone
layer, called HCFC 22, and chemical plants have used their
CDM profits to ramp up production.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL137011320070813

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1. An unnamed official, evidently...

what a surprise.

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2. The article goes on to name and quote the official,

Rajendra Shende, director of ozone issues at UNEP.

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3. the carbon offset scam goes on and on

the whole offset scheme is a fraud