The Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that saved the ozone layer, has been keeping our planet cool for years by phasing out ozone-depleting substances that are also potent global-warming gases.
On 16 September 2018, World Ozone Day,...
GENEVA 5 APRIL 2011 (WMO) Depletion of the ozone layer the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays has reached an unprecedented level over the Arctic this spring because of the continuin...
Governments Agree to Accelerated ‘Freeze and Phase-out” of Ozone and Climate- Damaging Chemicals at Montreal Protocol’s 20th Anniversary Celebrations
Montreal/Nairobi, 22 September 2007--An historic agr...
Geneva/Nairobi, 16 September 2010 – International efforts to protect the ozone layer—the shield that protects life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays—are a success and have stopped additional ozone losses and c...
Timor-Leste Makes Montreal Protocol First Global Environmental Agreement to Achieve Universal Ratification
Nairobi, 16 September 2009--A treaty to protect the ozone layer, which shields all life on Earth from deadly levels of ultra violet ray...