2000/9/28
Companies sign Ozone Protection Agreement
Observer Staff Writer
A number of Jamaican companies last week signed the Ozone
ProtectionAgreement, pledging commitment to support efforts to
protect the fragile ozone layer.
At the ceremony held at the offices of the National Resources
Conservation Authority (NRCA) in Kingston, representatives from
Desnoes and Geddes, Harbour Cold Stores Limited, West Indies
Synthetics Company (WISYNCo) and Suntraz Enterprises, consented
to remove the use of chlorofluorocarbons from their operations
and to urge competitors to do the same.
They also pledged to support the provisions of the Montreal
Protocol for the Phasing Out of Ozone Depleting Substances and
national strategies to phase out the use of such substances and
not to manufacture or sell any of these items.
The companies will help to create public awareness of the
Montreal Protocol, promote the use of ozone friendly technology
and inform the NRCA about their efforts to implement the
provisions of the pledge after six months and then after a year.
At the signing, chief executive officer of the National
Environmental and Planning Agency, Franklin McDonald, said the
aim was to get all companies and agencies and especially the
youth "to buy into the idea of the need to protect the
environment".
"We need to win the battle in the bedrooms and in the young
people," he said.
The NRCA also presented prizes to the winner and runner-up of the
NRCA's Ozone Day radio quiz competition. The competition was held
between September 11 and 15 as part of activities to commemorate
the anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol.
Quiz winner, Hugh Reynolds, was awarded a weekend for two at
Breezes Negril, while runner-up, Neville Walters, got a basket of
goodies.
Mr Reynolds said he was happy to have entered the competition as
he learnt a lot about the environment and had a clearer
understanding of what should be done to protect the ozone layer.
SOURCE: Jamaica Observer
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