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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)

• Isro payload to measure ozone-eaters

  Isro today successfully launched a cryogenic sampler payload-- an instrument to measure ozone depleting substances in the earth's atmosphere -- using a ballon for Germany-based Max Planck Institute.

  • 30/04/1999

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Europe faces ozone pollution threat -EU agency

  Europeans are regularly exposed to unsafe amounts of ground level ozone, a gas which can have serious health effects, a report commissioned by the European Union showed yesterday. "The threshold set

  • 28/04/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone crisis

  According to a report by the US-based World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the seasonal hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica reached record proportions in September 1998. Covering an area of

  • 14/04/1999

  • Down To Earth
  • • Health Effects
    • Ozone Layer
    • Radiation
    • Environmental Science
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Antarctica

• $2 m CFC phaseout aid for 14 projects

  The just-concluded 27th meeting of the Montreal Protocol Fund's executive committee meeting has sanctioned a fresh tranche of grant-in-aid for 14 Indian projects to meet the incremental cost for

  • 10/04/1999

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone-depleting substances to be phased out

  The UN environment Programme is launching a $7million assistance plan for developing countries to help them phase out ozone-depleting substances (OZS). The initiative, launched in Montreal at the

  • 05/04/1999

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• UNEP launches new initiative to assist developing countries phase out ozone depleting substances

  The United Nations Environment Programme announced that it is launching a major initiative, which will help developing countries phase out ozone-depleting sustances (ODS). This initiative, launched

  • 31/03/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• Scientist suggests building ozone observation station in Lhasa

  A Chinese meteoroligst has suggested building an Ozone Observation Station in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, to study the thin ozone layer above the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Zhou Xiuji,

  • 24/03/1999

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone hole

  Recovery of the earth's ozone layer will take years longer than previously expected, with Australia's peak scientific and research organisation pointing the finger at China's gas

  • 05/03/1999

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone depletion threat looms

  Even if all the countries of the world sincerely implement the Montreal Protocol of 1987 for phasing out the elements depleting the ozone layer around earth, the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other

  • 05/03/1999

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer

• $2.9 UNDP grant for CFC phaseout

  India will receive a fresh grant of $2.9 million (about Rs 12.08 crore) from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for phasing out of ozone depleting substances like chlorofluro-carbons

  • 19/02/1999

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Ozone Layer