[NYTr] Cuba Promotes Projects to Protect the Ozone Layer

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Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)
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Cuba Promotes Projects to Protect the Ozone Layer

Havana, Sept 26 (acn)The technological restructuring of a plant to 
produce pharmaceutical aerosols for asthmatic people is one of the 
Cuban projects to eliminate ozone depleting substances.

Speaking to ACN, MSc Daniel Peru Rivera, a specialist at the Ozone 
Technical Office in Havana, announced that the plant will now produce 
these aerosols without damaging the ozone layer as it will not use any 
kind of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), an ozone depleting substance.

Rivera noted that the plant, which will be fully operational early in 
2008, is part of the island's projects in favor of the environment that 
have the support of some agencies of the United Nations, including the 
UN Developing Program (UNDP).

During a meeting with representatives from some of these institutions, 
Cuban specialists presented other projects such as the elimination of 
the methyl bromide in the growing of coffee and also in other products 
in 2008.

As of December 2006, Cuba had reduced to 77% the consumption of 
chlorofluorocarbons.