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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)

• Teri website to assess finances for CFC units

  Leading NGO TERI has launched a website to assess the fund requirements to the existing Indian industrial and commercial owners of chloro fluoro carbon (CFC) units. This exercise comes under the

  • 26/12/2000

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Concerns raised over ozone depletion

  Experts concerned have stressed the need to produce necessary manpower to ensure that ozone-friendly chemicals are used in refrigeration and airconditioning in Nepal. The experts also expressed their

  • 23/12/2000

  • • Ozone Layer

• New uncontrolled chemicals threaten ozone layer, says United Nations

  The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued a warning that a range of new chemicals, used in products ranging from fire extinguishers to cleaning fluids, and not controlled by the

  • 21/12/2000

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone hole as big as ever

  Early data show that the ozone hole that develops each year over Antarctica has reached about the same magnitude as those of the past several years. Scientists from the National Oceanic and

  • 20/12/2000

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone depletion

  The problem of depletion of ozone layer surrounding the earth in the stratosphere, which filters certain ultra violet radiations harmful to man and other forms of life on earth is one of the foremost

  • 19/12/2000

  • • Ozone Layer

• Antarctic ozone hole as large as last year's

  By mid September the ozone hole that develops each year over Antarctica was about the same size as those of the past several years, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  • 18/12/2000

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone depletion will affect rice fields: UN panel member

  The impact of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) will be greatly felt on India's rice fields, Dr. G. Kulandaivelu, a member of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Environmental Effects

  • 18/12/2000

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Ozone Layer

• OUIKTOMS ozone monitoring instrument prepared for lunch

  NASA soon will launch its latest ozone-monitoring instrument, which will allow scientists to continue their long-term measurements of global ozone levels.The QUIKTOMS or Quick Total Ozone Mapping

  • 17/12/2000

  • • Ozone Layer

• Be ozone-friendly, Govt. tells industry

  In connection with the World Ozone Day (September 16), the Tamil Nadu Government has urged entrepreneurs and individual consumers to play their role in protecting the ozone

  • 16/12/2000

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Solar storms destroy ozone layers

  A new study confirms a long-held theory that large solar storms rain electrically charged particles down on Earth's atmosphere and depleted the upper-level ozone for weeks to months thereafter.New

  • 16/12/2000

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer