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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)

• Bhutan to halve import of ODS

  Bhutan will decrease its annual import of ozone depleting sub stances (ODS) from 150 kilogrammes to 75 kilogrammes in compliance with the Montreal Protocol ratified by the 82nd session of the

  • 15/01/2005

  • Kuensel (Bhutan)
  • • Ozone Layer

• 20 lakh CFC refrigerators to be phased out from country soon

  The Bangladesh government with the financial support of Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund (MLF) will procure 9000 kits to convert the CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) running refrigerators in the country

  • 14/01/2005

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Antarctic ozone hole growing again : study

  The winter hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica appears to have grown from last year but is still smaller than in 2003, when it was at its largest, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)

  • 25/12/2004

  • • Ozone Layer

• Ozone layer hole over Antarctica growing alarmingly

  The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has grown to near record size this year, suggesting 20 years of pollution controls have so far had little effect, the United Nations said. In a bulletin

  • 19/12/2004

  • • Ozone Layer

• Nepal firm to protect ozone layer: Koirala

  Minister for Environment, Science and Technology Prakash Koirala has said Nepal has made commitment for reducing the elements that destroy the ozone layer by 2010 as Nepal is a party to the Protocol

  • 17/12/2004

  • • Ozone Layer

• Industries will have to mind their ozone

  More than 350 phase out projects in various sectors using Ozone Depleting Subtances (ODS) are in different stages of progress in India, and Gujarat may bear the brunt in the services sector by not

  • 16/12/2004

  • • Ozone Layer
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  Death track

  New US study directly links deaths with air pollution

  • 14/12/2004

  • Down To Earth
  • • Air Pollution
    • Health Effects
    • Ozone Layer
    • Research

• Ozone pollution affects crops: Study

  High up in the sky, kit protects the Earth from getting torched. But closer to the ground, ozone seems to be adversely affecting productivity of several crops including rice and wheat. In a unique

  • 10/12/2004

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Enemies find a better way to cool off

  Greenpeace is usually associated with direct action rather than dialogue. But sometimes one can change into the other, and that is what happened when the campaign group challenged Unilever to change

  • 18/11/2004

  • Financial Times (London)
  • • Ozone Layer

• Hole in the pocket too!

  increased ozone concentration at ground level is damaging crops worth millions of dollars in the uk. Lisa Emberson of the Switzerland-based Stockholm Environment Institute recently developed a

  • 14/11/2004

  • • Ozone Layer
    • Green House Gases
    • United Kingdom (UK)