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Spotlight on the vital work carried out by the Assessment Panels

Video 8 November 2019

Parties to the Montreal Protocol to meet in Rome, Italy from 4-8 November 2019

News 4 November 2019

What: 31st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol

2019 Antarctic ozone hole weakest on record

2019 Antarctic ozone hole smallest on record

News 22 October 2019

Scientists from NASA and NOAA work together to track the ozone layer throughout the year and determine when the hole

Women making their mark in the cooling sector

News 20 September 2019

The refrigeration and air-condition sector may not immediately strike you as a particularly popular career choice for

Ozone Secretariat walks the talk on carbon neutrality

News 29 August 2019

The Secretariat of the Vienna Convention and its Montreal Protocol, which protect the ozone layer a

Countries to continue efforts to protect the ozone layer

Parties to the Montreal Protocol meet in Bangkok

Press Release 6 July 2019

Women in science for ozone protection

News 8 February 2019

International Day of Women and Girls in Science was marked globally on 11 February.

How the Kigali Amendment reduces climate change

Video 3 January 2019

The Kigali Amendment: The New Year’s resolution we must not break

Story 3 January 2019

The New Year celebrations are now behind us and a return to work is looming together with our New Year’s resolutions.

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 ...