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
Montreal Protocol
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Widening the gap
The amendments to the Montreal Protocol made at the 9th Meeting of Parties may help curb smuggling of ozone depleting substances and ensure compliance. But they place a heavy responsibility on developing countries who have to move towards the use of subst
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Measure for measure
Some countries have failed to live up to commitments. But measures to ensure compliance to the protocol do not address the issue of North South inequality
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The road ahead
While the protocol has succeeded in lowering consumption of CFCs, developing countries still bear the cost burden of using and developing substitutes
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Ten years of the Protocol
The good news... CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform have been phased out in developing countries to a large extent. Growth rates of CFCs and methyl chloroform in the
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PROMOTING INEQUALITY
The Montreal Protocol, hailed as a
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'Hole' of a problem!
As concern for the ozone layer mounts, two more chemicals have been found to have a degenerating effect on the protective shield
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Science backs the politically correct
GOOD deal of attention has ently been given to scientific - ideas and information in emational relations literae - some of which looks scientific knowledge as a rce of foreign policy
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IN FOCUS
The Republican Congressmen in the US continue to go hammer and tongs against all things environmental. This time it is the ozone layer. Led by representative John T Doolittle,
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A depletion of faith
SEPTEMBER 16 this year, as recommended by the United Nations General Assembly, marks the first International Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer -- the thin layer of gaseous stratospheric ozone
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Ozone omens
The hole in the ozone shield is growing faster than ever, warns a recent report