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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 layer over Europe dwindling - ESA

  The ozone layer over Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia has dwindled to worrying levels nearly as low as those found in the Antarctic, the European Space Agency (ESA)

  • 03/12/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• W hole truth

  Antarctic ozone hole smaller this year, says NASA

  • 14/11/1999

  • Down To Earth
  • • Ozone Layer
    • Research
    • Antarctica
    • NASA

• Rs 20 cr UNDP aid to phase out ODS

  The Union government and the United Nations Development Programme signed an agreement in New Delhi to channel nearly Rs 11 crore of aid money to 20 private firms for eliminating the use of

  • 19/10/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• India to seek review of tech transfer rules

  India and some of the developing nations, stung by the lopsided technology transfer rules imposed by the West under the Montreal Protocol on ozone layer protection, are now trying to negotiate the

  • 17/10/1999

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Houston chokes as smog levels rise

  Los Angeles has long been the most polluted city in the US, but Houston appears poised to take over that dubious title. City officials said that Houstan has had 44 days in 1999 where ozone levels

  • 13/10/1999

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• EU still suffering serious ozone pollution - report

  Citizens in most European Union countries were exposed to dangerous levels of the harmful gas ozone during the summer of 1999,according to data released by the European Commission

  • 13/10/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• Soviet-era spyplane spies on ozone hole

  The M55-Geophysica spyplane was once the pride of the Soviet secret services, unknown outside intelligence circles and unlisted in aircraft reference works. But the hush-hush high-altitude aircraft

  • 09/10/1999

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone layer is shrinking, latest Nasa images show

  Finally there is some good news for environmentalists. Latest images provided by Nasa show the disturbing and potentially harmful hole in the ozone layer is shrinking. While the hole is still a

  • 03/10/1999

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone protection

  Shortage of funds may prevent developing countries from phasing out CFCs

  • 14/09/1999

  • Down To Earth
  • • Ozone Layer
    • CFCs
    • Aid
    • Developing Countries

• India receives CFC aid for processing industry

  India has received for the first time a grant-in-aid for the processing sector under a Montreal Protocol scheme to phase out the use and production of the chlorofluorocarbon(CFC) and other

  • 28/07/1999

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer