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fisheries losses, will only be stopped by a worldwide 

 effort — laid out in the Montreal Protocol — to stop using 

 chlorof luorocarbons (CFCs) . The Intelligence Community 

 has been following this problem for several years and is 

 starting work on a program to determine whether we can 

 monitor emissions of CFCs. 



o Tropical deforestation is a phenomenon that jeopardizes 

 the world's climate, causes local problems such as 

 flooding and mudslides, and leads to the extinction of 

 plant and* animal species needed for biomedical research. 

 CIA analysts have done work on these issues, using 

 satellite imagery and other tools, to support US 

 policymakers in their multi-year efforts to secure an 

 international treaty on forest protection. 



o Possible climate change, and measures adopted by 

 governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an 

 effort to avert it, have potentially far-reaching 

 consequences. As US negotiators worked at length to 

 forge the international agreement on this important issue 

 that opened for signature two months ago in Rio, CIA 

 analysts provided them, over the course of a three-year 



