§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they have any proposals for dealing with the problem of CFCs entering the atmosphere from refrigerated merchant ships and refrigerated containers, in relation to the Montreal Protocol.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment (Lord Hesketh)The UK is pressing for a strengthening of the Montreal Protocol to cut CFC consumption and production by 50 per cent. in 1991/92, by 85 per cent. in 1995/96, with a phase-out by 2000. I understand leakage of refrigerant from all forms of refrigerated transport is very low. Most refrigerated merchant ships use HCFC 22, which has an ozone depleting potential one-twentieth that of CFC 12. HCFC 22 is not controlled by the protocol.