Our cities are exploding in size, depleting water resources and creating horrific traffic congestion.

Now competition for those supplies is intensifying, as China, India, and others bid for the same (depleting) resources.

Suddenly, instead of a world of peak oil with ever depleting resources, technology offered the promise of extending supplies for another generation.

ODS ozone depleting substances

Trafficking in ozone depleting substances

The threat of depleting the world s scarce energy resources has maintained a powerful hold on popular thinking ever since the oil shocks of the 1970 s.

illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

Relentless extraction is quickly depleting China s resource deposits.

Regional Network Coordination for Ozone Depleting Substances

Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting

Likewise, export licensing systems or bans for re exporting ozone depleting substances were rare, as were import prohibitions for equipment containing ozone depleting substances.

Decision XVII __ Preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

b. Enhancing import export monitoring of ODSozone depleting substances

Decision XVI 33. Illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

(iii) Specifying harmonized system codes for all ODSozone depleting substances

Draft decision XVII I Preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

Any such manifesto must address the two elephants in the room Palestine and the price of oil as well as the extent to which regional water and energy resources, now rapidly depleting, should be shared.

Ozone depleting substances and some of their alternatives contribute to climate change.

N propyl bromide (n PB) is a non controlled ozone depleting substance.

Includes the location of the Regional Network Coordination for Ozone Depleting Substances.

Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances (decision XVI 33).

Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances (decision XVI 33)

Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances (decision XVI 33).

Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances (decision XVI 33)

Some representatives raised concerns about the impact of any new tracking system for ozone depleting substances, particularly in terms of the additional burdens it might impose on countries exporting ozone depleting substances.

Illegal trade in ozone depleting substances is controlled by the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which aims to gradually reduce and finally phase out all ozone depleting substances.

Annex IV 2004 recovered ozone depleting substances imported and exported by the Parties

Item 6 Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances (decision XVI 33)

(ii) Bringing enforcement actions in specific cases of illegal import of ozone depleting substancesODS

However, no new methods using non ozone depleting substances had emerged since the last report on that issue, and CTOC welcomed information from the Parties on any new ozone depleting substance free testing methods that became available.

To note with appreciation the notes by the Secretariat on information reported by the Parties on illegal trade in ozone depleting substances and on streamlining the exchange of information on reducing illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

This would help to prevent illegal trade in ozone depleting substances and equipment containing them

The report concluded that progress had been made in the reduction of process agent related emissions through Executive Committee projects aimed at converting existing processes using ozone depleting substances to processes that do not use ozone depleting substances.

By 2010, close to 100 ozone depleting substances, including CFCs, will have been phased out globally.

The excess of oxygen depleting chemicals leads to hypoxia and the creation of a dead zone.

(i) Implementing efficient legal systems to control and monitor imports and exports of ozone depleting substances

Armenia reported consumption of 1.020 ozone depleting potential ODP tonnes (ODP tonnes) of methyl bromide in 2004.

Report of the workshop on illegal trade in ozone depleting substances, held in Montreal on 3 April

The training should focus on measures to identify and prevent illegal trade in ODS ozone depleting substances

On many occasions, the Parties to the Montreal Protocol have expressed concern regarding the illegal trade in ozone depleting substances (ODS), and ODS containing products containing ozone depleting substances The Parties have discussed various ways that they mightcould possibly address the issue.

In order to meet demands from the old world, tobacco was grown in succession, quickly depleting the land.

Emphasis should be on training and capacity building forof the officials responsible for phasing out ozone depleting substances

The ozone layer plays an important role in depleting the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation that reaches the surface.

The training focused mainly on CFC refrigerants, while other ozone depleting substances were dealt with only in general terms.

In response, Parties stressed the importance of the various ongoing initiatives for combating illegal trade in ozone depleting substances.