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A State or a regional economic integration organization may not become a party to a protocol unless it is, or becomes at the same time, a Party to the Convention. Decisions concerning any protocol shall be taken only by the parties to the...
This Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. Any protocol, except as otherwise provided in such protocol, shall enter...
This Convention and any protocol shall be open for accession by States and by regional economic integration organizations from the date on which the Convention or the protocol concerned is closed for signature. The instruments of accession shall b...
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...
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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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Twenty-five years ago, the Beijing Platform for Action committed to address and remove systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation both in public and priva...