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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)

• Recycling firm admits CFC blunder

  Kansai Recycle System Corp., based in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, illegally released into the atmosphere 300 kg of chlorofluorocarbon gas stored in used air conditioners and refrigerators, the

  • 01/03/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• CFN using units asked to abide by pollution norms

  The depleting level of ozone layer in the industrial pockets surrounding Delhi has alerted the Union environment ministry, which is a signatory to the Montreal Protocol. According to this agreement,

  • 21/02/2002

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• UK fridge fiasco to be probed as new equipment trials begin

  Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, this week ordered an investigation into what is being described as a multi-million pound fiasco caused by ministers failing to prepare the country to comply with

  • 25/01/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• Britain has pile of fridges waiting to be recycled

  Britain is turning into an old refrigerator dump because it lacks facilities to recycle them in line with new European rules, industry experts said. Since November alone, the old cooling appliances

  • 22/01/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• EU clamps down on ozone pollution

  The European Union is to clamp down on ozone pollution - the main component of smog which can be lethal to severe asthma sufferers - under new rules passed by the European Parliament. The EU assembly

  • 18/01/2002

  • • Ozone Layer

• Illegal trading threatening the montreal protocol

  Everyone agrees the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer signed in 1987 by 46 countries in 1987 and since ratifies by 175 Parties to the Protocol, galvanized the international

  • 16/01/2002

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Campaign against ozone depleting substances

  The ozone cell of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests will launch a campaign against the use of ozone depleting substances to create an awareness among people of the need to adopt

  • 04/01/2002

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Green lessons for yellow shirts

  Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu plans to train his Cabinet colleagues, MPs and MLAs in environmental matters phasing out of ozone layer depleting substances to be precise. Sources

  • 30/12/2001

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Hole truth

  The ozone hole over the Antartic will now start shrinking, and will completely close over by 2050, say Australian scientists who've been monitoring and studying the worrying phenomenon since it was

  • 24/12/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Home Office defies Prescott ozone directive

  Leaked documents reveal that the Home Office is insisting its new Whitehall headquarters is fitted with an air conditioning system which has been officially criticised because of its damage to the

  • 23/12/2001

  • • Ozone Layer