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Ozone Layer

• 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)

• Refrigerant gases to be banned

  Japan's House of Councilors on Friday approved a bill mandating the retrieval and destruction of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases used in automobile air conditioners, industrial refrigerators and

  • 16/06/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• Environment ministry directs industries to register by July 19

  In an effort to provide funding to industries which consume Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS), the Ozone Cell of the Ministry of Environment and Forests has called upon all ODS consuming industries in

  • 09/06/2001

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Temporary gain

  The protective ozone layer over the North Pole appears to have stabilised after years of thinning UN weather experts report. But the gain may be temporary. Scientists from the World

  • 30/05/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Ozone Layer
    • Environmental Science
    • UN

• TOGO

  Togo is planning to eliminate ozone-depleting substances (ods) by 2005 instead of the 2010 deadline set by the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol. This is the objective of the national

  • 29/04/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Vienna Convention
    • Montreal Protocol
    • Ozone Layer
    • Togo

• THE UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME

  The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) recently launched the first ever online halon trading scheme. Halons are gaseous halogen compounds used to extinguish fires and they are three to 10 times more

  • 29/04/2001

  • UNEP
  • • Ozone Layer
    • CFCs
    • UN
    • UNEP

• Depletion rate of ozone arrested

  The destruction of the earth's protective layer over the Northern Hemisphere has been less than in recent years, but Unite Nations experts say that it is due to warmer temperatures rather than a drop

  • 26/04/2001

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer
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  Forests under threat

  smoggy air damages plants, causes leaf injury, adversely affects plant growth and reduces fruit yield. Air pollutants such as sulphur, fluorides, ozone affect forest ecosystems adversely. This book

  • 30/03/2001

  • • Air Pollution
    • Forests
    • Forest Management
    • Forest Policy
    • Forest Conservation
    • Forest Fires
    • Ozone Layer
    • Climate Change
    • California

• Ozone-eating clouds form in cold polar rings - study

  Ozone-eating clouds that erode Earth's protection against ultraviolet radiation are born in thin rings of supercold air over the North and South Poles, scientists reported yesterday. The Sun's

  • 30/03/2001

  • • Ozone Layer

• New online trading scheme should cut use of the worst halons

  The first ever online halon trading scheme, launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), should ease the international exchange of 'banked' halons, and reduce the use of

  • 23/03/2001

  • • Ozone Layer
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  Ecofriendly refrigerators

  The first Indian refrigerator to meet Montreal Protocol standards is unveiled

  • 14/03/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Montreal Protocol
    • Pollution Control
    • Ozone Layer
    • CFCs
    • India
    • Electronics