The World - News from Aug. 31, 1989
A U.N. conference opened in Nairobi, Kenya, to consider proposals for a total ban on the use of ozone-depleting chemicals by the year 2005. Mostafa Tolba, head of the U.N. Environment Program, proposed the ban to government delegates reviewing an international treaty controlling the use of substances harmful to the Earth’s protective ozone layer. The treaty under review, the 1987 Montreal Protocol, governs the use of such harmful substances as chlorofluorocarbons. Tolba urged delegates to tighten up the protocol before its signatories meet again in London next June. The protocol urges industrialized countries to cut their use of chlorofluorocarbons by 50% by 1998.
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