News

A tribute

News 8 October 2020

Professor Mario Molina, our most esteemed champion of ozone layer protection has passed away.

First International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 29 September 2020

News 24 September 2020

Contingency meeting plans for 2020-2021: update

News 21 September 2020

World Ozone Day 2020 – Ozone for life!

Video 1 September 2020

Parties conclude online discussions on the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund

Press Release 17 July 2020

Kigali Amendment hits milestone 100th ratification, boosting climate action

News 14 July 2020

The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement to cut the use of climate-warming hydrofluo

Overview for the meetings of the ozone treaties in 2020-2021

News 29 May 2020

Montreal Protocol likely to avert 443 million skin cancer cases in the United States

News 21 May 2020

Arctic ozone hole closes

News 29 April 2020

New data suggests that the record ozone hole discovered over the Arctic in March is now closed.

New Report Highlights Two-Way Link Between Ozone Layer and Climate Change

Press Release 16 September 2010

Geneva/Nairobi, 16 September 2010 – International efforts to protect the ozone layer—the shield that

Upgrading Ozone Layer Treaty to Assist in Combating Climate Change Key Issue at International Meeting in Egypt

Press Release 2 November 2009

21^st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substan

Ozone Treaty Anniversary Gifts Big Birthday Present to Human Health and Combating of Climate Change

Press Release 16 September 2009

Timor-Leste Makes Montreal Protocol First Global Environmental Agreement to Achieve Universal Ratification

Record Stratospheric Ozone Loss in the Arctic in Spring of 2011

Press Release 22 September 2007

Governments Agree to Accelerated ‘Freeze and Phase-out” of Ozone and Climate- Damaging Chemicals at Montreal

New Report Projects Later Recovery of Ozone Layer

Press Release 18 August 2006

BUT EARLY SIGNS OF MENDING CONFIRM EFFECTIVENESS OF MONTREAL PROTOCOL ON SUBSTANCES THAT DEPLETE THE OZONE LA

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Montreal protocol progress

Kigali Amendment

The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol entered into force on 1 January 2019 after the threshold for the agreement to enter into force was met on 17 November 2017, when it was ratified by 20 parties.

Greening the blue

Working towards climate neutrality

The Ozone Secretariat is part of the UN’s “Greening the Blue” efforts to move towards climate neutrality. The Secretariat works towards climate neutrality by measuring the carbon footprint of Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol meetings ...