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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)

• India to get fresh support for phasing out CFC

  Two new norms of project support have been provided to India for phasing out chlorofluorocarbon(CFC) and other ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) under the Montreal

  • 22/12/1999

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Montreal protocol approves aid

  The Executive Committee of Montreal Protocol has approved an assistance of $82 millions to India for phasing out the production of ozone-depleting Chloro-fluoro-carbons(CFCs0. The assistance is being

  • 20/12/1999

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Experts worry about ozone 'dip' over India

  The health of the ozone layer, particularly over the tropics, has to be studied because the layer is "minimum" over India;there's an ozone dip according to Kalipad Chatterjee of Development

  • 18/12/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• Four firms embark on $82m project to phase out ODS

  Four leading chloro flouro chlorine (CFC) manufacturing Indian bigwigs have embarked on a $82 million project for switching over to the production of non-ozone depleting substances (ODS) in order to

  • 17/12/1999

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Antarctic ozone hole is three times larger than US

  According to NASA, the hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic is three times bigger than the entire land mass of the US, the largest size ever observed. The hole, or what scientists call the

  • 15/12/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• Bakery to pay record fine under US stratospheric ozone protection programme.

  An Arkansas bakery has agreed to pay a $3.5 million fine for violating the Clean Air Act regarding the protection of the stratospheric ozone.The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on

  • 15/12/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• Montreal Protocol clears $80 million payout to four cos

  The Montreal Protocol has cleared a compensation of $80 million to four Indian companies, including SRF Ltd and Gujarat Fluorocarbons, for phasing out manufacture of ozone depleting cholro

  • 10/12/1999

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Depletion of ozone layer increases

  The recent satellite observations of the sunlit portion over Antarctica shows an alarming 30 per cent decrease in the total amount of ozone layer, according to the UN world meterorological

  • 09/12/1999

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• China steps up efforts to cut ozone-depleting chemicals

  China has stepped up its efforts to cut production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) in a bid to protect the ozone layer and fulfill its international obligations. The Chinese

  • 08/12/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• Freezing clouds threaten Arctic ozone

  Record low air temperatures high above the Arctic this winter are set to create the northern hemisphere's largest ever ozone hole says a report in New Scientist. "The system is primed for ozone

  • 03/12/1999

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer