The 28th executive committee meeting of the Montreal Protocol Fund, crucial for Indian chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) manufacturers, will begin in Montreal tomorrow.
An important item on the agenda is to evolve a consensus on how much grant-in-aid India should get from the multilateral fund to phase out CFC production between 1999 and 2010, the timeframe set by the protocol.
Two environment and forests ministry officials_special secretary Vinod Vaish and Atul Bagai, director of the ministry's ozone cell_will plead India's case at the meet. The officials left for Montreal on July 10.
The Indian production sector has demanded a grant of $250 million. The World Bank, which assessed the requirement, has already cut it down drastically. Industrialised countries, represented on the executive committee, want a further