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As we continue to live and work under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions on travel and the convening of large meetings remain in place. The Ozone Secretariat, after consulting the bureaux of the eleventh meeting of the C...
Professor Mario Molina, our most esteemed champion of ozone layer protection has passed away.
He, together with Professor F. Sherwood Roland, hypothesized in their paper published in Nature in 1974, that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) destroy the...
Now more than ever, with a global pandemic and the Earth’s environment at breaking point, science is at the forefront of action, spearheading the battle to save the planet. On 11 October, International Day of the Girl, we want to encourage girls to c...
Full implementation of the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement to protect the ozone layer, is expected to prevent 443 million cases of skin cancer, 2.3 million skin cancer deaths and 63 million cases of cataracts for people i...
As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact how we work for the foreseeable future, the Ozone Secretariat has reviewed the feasibility of the physical meetings of the ozone treaties scheduled for 2020-2021. After consulting the...
The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement to cut the use of climate-warming hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), has reached a major milestone, with Liberia becoming the 100th nation to ratify the Amendment, providing a welcome bo...
From 14 to 16 July 2020, parties and other stakeholders to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer convened to discuss the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol fo...