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Article: ENVIRONMENT: RICH NATIONS MUST KEEP PLEDGES TO SAVE OZONE LAYER
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- November 9, 1996
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IPS Correspondents
Inter Press Service English News Wire
11-09-1996
SAN JOSE/Costa Rica, Nov. 8 (IPS) -- Some 800 delegates from
around the world will meet in Costa Rica, Nov. 19-28, to discuss
new priorities in the fight to control chemicals that deplete the
ozone layer, and to challenge the developed world to keep their
pledges to fund the program.
The Eighth Conference of the Partners of the Montreal Protocol
will culminate with a two-day summit involving an expected 157
environmental ministers from the signatory states.
The meeting comes as U.N. meteorological experts confirmed this
week that the hole in the ozone layer, the natural atmospheric
blanket that shields the Earth from the worst ...