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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...
The global corona virus pandemic is a concern for us all and is a reality to all of us, no matter where we live and work. We all find ourselves facing very trying times.
To overcome the spread and threat of the COVID-19 virus, we have h...
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An information sharing platform known as the informal Prior Informed Consent (iPIC) system is helping countries enforce the work of the Montreal Protocol. Recent collaboration between China and Thailand using the iPIC system, for example, has resulted ...
New data suggests that the record ozone hole discovered over the Arctic in March is now closed. Despite the unprecedented size causing alarm, scientists were quick to dispel the assumption that this must be due to a spike in ozone-depleting substances....