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Washington DC– TIME Magazine has named Dutch scientist Dr. Guus Velders one of the 100 most influential people for 2017 for research...
Next month, signatories to the 1989 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete t...
Ministers and top UN leaders urged the world’s nations to quickly ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol during a high-level event held on 18 September 2017 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Under the Ki...
Montreal Protocol parties continue to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Protocol. The latest ratification was by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on 21 September 2017.
The other parties to the Amendment, listed in the ord...
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...