Brazil. The South American giant is the fifth country that makes the most reductions in the consumption of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons, substances that destroy the ozone layer), made in the ranking made by the Statistics Division of the United Nations.
Between 1995 and 2005, the country cut the use of CFCs, gases also known as freons, by 998 tons of ozone-depleting potential, a unit used to measure the possible damage caused to the layer that acts as a shield and protects the planet against solar radiation.
Brazil was behind China, which was able to reduce 62,167 tons, the United States (34,033), Japan (23,063) and Russia (20,641), in a list of 172 countries compiled by the UN.
These figures show the progress made by the Montreal Protocol, which in recent months commemorated its 20th anniversary.
