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Assessment reveals healing ozone
Assessment reveals healing ozone, untapped potential for climate action
Press Release 8 November 2018

Update, 1 Februrary 2019 - The full report of the 2018 Quadrennial Assessment of Ozone Depletion has

Ozone Heros Campaign awards
#OzoneHeroes wins a Hermes Creative Award
Story 6 November 2018

MOP30
30th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol
Story 2 November 2018

Media Advisory

Photo credit: Angelina Fetisova
Increased research and observation crucial to efforts to continue to protect the ozone layer and climate
Press Release 10 October 2018

Top ozone experts from around the world highlighted the need for increased research and observations to inform policy

Be cool and save the ozone layer
Be cool and save the ozone layer
Video 4 September 2018

Keep Cool and Carry On - Ozone day 2018
Keep Cool and Carry On
Story 2 September 2018

Keep Cool and Carry On

Ozone day poster
Keep Cool and Carry On: Protecting our ozone layer and climate on World Ozone Day
News 17 July 2018

The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that saved the ozone layer, has been keeping our planet cool for year

Pollution
Parties take up urgent response to CFC-11 emissions
Story 16 July 2018
    Pyle Davy
    SAP Co-Chair John Pyle awarded for scientific leadership
    Story 14 July 2018

    Co-Chair of the Scientific Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol, Prof.

    Record Stratospheric Ozone Loss in the Arctic in Spring of 2011
    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

    Ozone hole
    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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    Kigali Amendment Kigali Amendment
    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.

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    Working towards climate neutrality Working towards climate neutrality
    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 ...

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    World Ozone Day

    2019

    2019

    32 years and healing

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    2018

    2018

    Keep cool and carry on

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    2017

    2017

    30th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol: we are all ozone heroes

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    2016

    2016

    Ozone and climate: restored by a world united

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    2015

    2015

    Precious ozone: 30th anniversary of the Vienna Convention and international ozone day 2015

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    2006 - 2014

    2006 - 2014

    Earlier celebrations of international ozone day

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