Success Story: CFC Production Has Fallen Sharply

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version

Annual Production of CFCs, 1986-95

Since 1987, global consumption of ozone-destroying substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) has dropped more than 70 percent. For more information see http://www.wri.org/trends/ozone1.html.

Source: Sebastian Oberthur, Production and Consumption of Ozone-Depleting Substances, 1986-1995 (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit, Bonn, Germany, 1997), p. 30.

Note: Ozone-depleting potential (ODP) tons is a measure by which ozone-depleting substances are weighted according to their ability to destroy ozone.