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• India's journey towards sustainable cooling

  Sustainability, for long, has been at the core of Indian lifestyle and its indigenous knowledge and sustainable practices have played a crucial role in helping people be informed and make environmentally

  • 02/01/2024

  • UNDP India
  • • Climate Change
    • Ozone Layer
    • Montreal Protocol
    • India
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Ozone hole is growing

  The ozone hole is over the Antarctic is growing at a rate that suggests it could be headed for a record size this year, Australian scientists said. A study by Antarctic bases operated by Australia

  • 23/12/2002

  • International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Scientists find larger ozone hole

  A joint study by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) and the Bureau of Meteorology has predicted a much larger ozone hole than normal over the Antarctic this spring. Scientists conducting the

  • 22/12/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• Efforts stressed to phase out ozone depleting substances

  International Ozone Day was observed in Pakistan with the hope and fear of further depletion of Ozone Layer, instability of which could cause lungs and cancer diseases primarily due to rapid

  • 17/12/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• U.N. says 'ozone hole' hits record size

  The ozone hole over the Antarctic this year has reached the record size of 10.8 million square miles set three years ago, the United Nations' weather organization said. Measurements over and near

  • 17/12/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• Germany fears loss of up to 1.7m jobs

  controversial plans to regulate the European chemical industry could destroy up to 1.7m jobs in Germany, according to a study commissioned by BDI, the German industry federation, and relased

  • 17/12/2002

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • Ozone Layer

• International day for the preservation of the ozone layer

  The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, in a message on the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, hails the international community's response to the destruction of the

  • 16/12/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• MoU to train customs officials on ozone protection

  A memorandum of understanding is soon to be signed by National Academy for Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to provide training for Customs

  • 15/12/2002

  • New Indian Express (Chennai)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Lethal Request

  US grain millers seek exemption from ban on methyl bromide

  • 14/12/2002

  • Down To Earth
  • • Montreal Protocol
    • Ozone Layer
    • Legislation
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Developing Countries

• Canadian Satellite to Study Ozone, Climate Change

  The Canadian Space Agency has launched a brand new satellite to help scientists study ozone depletion in the atmosphere, marking the first launch of a small Canadian-built satellite in three decades,

  • 14/12/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• The Antarctica 'ozone hole' reaches record proportions

  The gaping, man-made hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has hit record proportions for this time of year and could get bigger still within the next few says, a leading scientist said. At just

  • 14/12/2002

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer