Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Dinesh Prasad Chaurasia & Others Vs State of Bihar & Others dated 12/04/2024. The matter related to improper disposal of fly ash by the thermal power station run by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Kanti, Muzaffarpur, …
The United Nations Development Prog-ramme (UNDP) has allocated US $100,000 to Vietnam to support the relief efforts for the typhoon-stricken areas in that country. Typhoon Linda which hit the southern tip of Vietnam has so far claimed 86 lives and has destroyed nearly 6,000 houses and flooded around 450,000 hectares …
researchers in the us have identified several seed varieties that are resistant to ozone damage. The findings would help farmers to select crop seeds that are less susceptible to damage from ground-level ozone. Scientists at the us Department of Agriculture's ( usda ) research center, Beltsville, Maryland, have found that …
A law formally banning and penalising production and use of CFCs, the chemicals marked as ozone eaters, is likely to be in place in a few months. The regulations will be enforced under the Environment Protection Act.
The fate of the world's protective ozone layer depends mainly on the actions of developing countries and Russia, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says in a report. These countries account for 80 per cent of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the most prevalent ozone-eating chemical and 100 per cent of halon production, …
A consumer-focussed awareness campaign is being launched here on Wednesday, the International Ozone Day, to push what is claimed to be the "right choice in refrigeration." A global countdown has been under way since the 1987 Montreal Protocol for ringing out CFCs that harm the ozone layer. The refrigeration and …
volcanoes eject large amounts of sulphur into the atmosphere when they erupt, and actually contribute significantly to global cooling. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, on June 15, 1991, discharged huge amounts of ash and other debris into the atmosphere, creating the largest stratospheric cloud of sulphur dioxide ( so …
Ozone can affect both healthy people and those suffering from respiratory illnesses such as asthma. Epidemiological studies done in the US and Europe have shown worsening of asthma symptoms, a spurt in use of medicine for treatment of respiratory problems and increase in hospital admissions due to asthma attacks during …
A group of scientists from the University of Panjab, Pakistan, led by S R A Shamsi, studied the impact of ambient ozone on soybean crop at three sites near Lahore
A recent report indicates that the production of CFCs has seen a drastic reduction, spelling hope for the Earth, even as the UN observes 16 September as Save Ozone Day.
Premier Care, a CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) free refrigerant of the Secunderabad-based Rockwell Industries Ltd (RIL) was formally launched in Hyderabad on Tuesday by the State Chief Minister Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu.
The Montreal Protocol multilateral fund has decided to provide a grant-in-aid for four more Indian projects _ BPL Refrigeration Ltd, Sandeep Refrigeration, Prashant Refrigeration Appliances and Malhotra Shaving Products Ltd-for the development of substitutes for ozone depleting substances (ODS).
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the international environmental agreement that "Ozone Day" on 16 September commemorates, is working-a cause for some celebration. According to Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), the Protocol is a shining example of how a legal convention …
chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) are not the only threat to the ozone layer. Nitrous oxide (n2o), also known as laughing gas, has been quietly eating into the layer that screens out harmful ultraviolet radiations. The gas has a tremendous global warming potential, with a heat absorption capacity 250-290 times that of carbon …
ten years after the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was signed, it is being hailed as a success story of cooperation between policy makers, scientists, industry and non-government organisations. United Nations Environment Programme (unep) executive director Elizabeth Dowdeswell and Canadian member of parliament Clifford Lincoln, among …
the agenda for the 9th Meeting of Parties to the Protocol (mop-9) included measures to ensure compliance, curb smuggling of cfc s, and phase out hcfc s, methyl bromide, methyl chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and other cfc substitutes with a high ozone depleting potential (odp). A number of decisions were taken …
the Montreal Protocol is now hailed as an "extraordinary environmental success'and has come to be regarded as a "model-setting, green, global agreement'. A recent study commissioned by Environment Canada which was tabled at mop -9 concludes that the health and financial benefits of the protocol far outweigh its costs. It …
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 atmosphere have slowed down. The trend of decision making based on science and technology assessments has been established. Over US …
international smuggling of chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) - gases used as a coolants in refrigerators and air-conditioners that lead to global warming - are generating a lot of heat in political circles. September 16, 1997 marked the 10th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, a path-breaking global agreement to phase out cfcs after …
