New software developed by the Information Technology and Advanced Telematics Services Company (Citmatel) will allow you to know the information necessary to make an updated survey of the ODS substances in the Cuban archipelago.
This computer product will be part of the actions of the Island to fulfill the commitments with the Montreal Protocol, and responds to the call made to national organisms and entities to inventory the substances and equipment present in its facilities, by the Technical Office of Ozone, belonging To the Center for Information Management and Energy Development (CUBAENERGIA).
The MsC. Manuel Fernández Rondón, Director of Science, Innovation and International Collaboration of the Agency of Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (AENTA), referring to the new service indicated that it will allow to quantify the consumption of these substances and provide alternatives to the country to draw up a national strategy of Reduction of substances that harm the environment.
In this regard, Dr. Magaly Torres, Director of the Environment of CITMA, referred to the main environmental problems of the island and considered that the fundamental difficulty is the degradation of soils, followed by the affectation of forest cover, pollution and The loss of biological diversity.