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Parties to the Montreal Protocol have selected David Fahey of the United States and Bonfils Safari of Rwanda to serve as co-chairs of the Protocol’s Scientific Assessment Panel (SAP).
Fahey and Safari were endorsed to serve on the panel by ...
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...
Did you also know that………?
Without stratospheric ozone layer shielding the Earth, life on earth would be vulnerable to damage by the sun’s ultraviolet rays, threatening people, food production and ecosystems.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science is marked every year on 11 February. Because the work of protecting the ozone layer is embedded in science, we think it is important to debunk the myth that science is for men only and boring.
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