U.N. agency assisting North Korea with pro-environmental practices

UPI ^ | June 17, 2016 | Elizabeth Shim

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U.N. agency assisting North Korea with pro-environmental practices

By Elizabeth Shim Contact the Author | June 17, 2016 at 9:22 PM

SEOUL, June 17 (UPI) -- The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is to assist North Korea develop environmentally sound enterprises.

UNIDO, the Vienna-based U.N. agency that aims to promote and accelerate industrial development in developing countries, said it is pursuing four different environmentally friendly projects in the country, Radio Free Asia reported.

According to a UNIDO official, since March 2015, $123,700 has been allocated toward progressively reducing the discharge of hydrochlorofluorocarbons in North Korea. In 2015, $57,290 was spent for the first project.

HCFCs are the chemical compounds used as substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons because they are slightly less destructive to the ozone layer. They are commonly used in cooling devices such as refrigerators and air conditioners.

UNIDO's work with North Korea has been ongoing for quite some time.

In 2011 the U.N. agency budgeted $50,000 toward introducing polyurethane foam, used for insulation, and in 2010 UNIDO provided $65,000 of development assistance to introduce HCFCs to North Korea.

[TigerLikesRooster]

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[cpdiii]

North Korea is the most advanced society in relationship to environmental policy. They starve and kill their people with great regularity, they have few internal combustion engines, electricity made by evil carbon sources is almost non existent. Hail Caesar, Hail Fat Boy Kim, Hail the Environment, North Korea leads the way to a grand new society. Our carbon footprint is small. Sorry about all those bodies on the road to our Brave New World, but what the hell, Buzzards and Vultures need to eat also and each dead body mean less carbon footprint.

Al Gore approves of this message, I think? /S

[Pearls Before Swine]

Assisting or infecting?

[Stayfree]

Beyond moronic...

[BobL]

...such as burying starvation victims with as little environmental footprint as possible.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We have much to learn from the Norks...