Healing the ozone layer through diplomacy
The Montreal Protocol shows what is possible when science, diplomacy, and business cooperate to implement international environmental agreements. When the people became aware of a hole in the ozone layer
CFCs
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Greening of industry under the Montreal Protocol
Currently, the main challenge is that the long-term, financially viable, widely available and environmentally safe alternative technologies are still under development in many fields. The research and development are fast but deadlines for compliance are also pressing.
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The Montreal Protocol: India's success story
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has since been recognized as an extraordinary environmental success in global cooperation to protect the ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol has completed more than 20 years of its progress.
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Laughing gas biggest threat to ozone layer
Scientists who study the depletion of Earth
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Fixing the sky
When nations made plans to save the ozone layer, they didn't factor in global warming. Quirin Schiermeier reports on how two environmental problems complicate each other.
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Lessons from Antarctica
Twenty years on, the success of the Montreal Protocol can help inform plans to mitigate climate change. (Editorial)
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Preparing for HCFC phase-out: fundamentals of uses, alternatives, implications and funding for Article 5 countries
The issues of ozone depletion and climate change have been at the forefront of the international community
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The HFC imperative: essential action for global climate protection
The Montreal Protocol has been extremely successful in enabling the phase-out of ozone depleting substances (ODS). As a result of these phase-outs, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) have been commercialized as substitutes for ODS. The HFCs being used as ODS substitutes are powerful greenhouse gases (GHG) with global-warming potentials (GWP) hundreds to thousands of times
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Eco-thriller
Film>> Ozone Killers
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Global warming is a matter of concern for all
With advent of technologies our globe has become a `global village' . With its growth the present world is now facing a major problem of Global Warming. Unrestricted use of fossil fuels has increased the concentrations of green house gases (GHGs) like carbon dioxide to unprecedented levels, which the natural sinks in the bio-chemical cycles are finding too much to mitigate.
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HCFCs to be phased out
Bhutan will start phasing out hydro-chlorofluorocarbons (HCFC), an ozone depleting substance (ODS), starting 2013.