Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ujjwal Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/01/2025. An application was registered on the basis of a news item titled "1 Kodo poisoning behind elephant deaths in MPs Bandhavgarh All you need to know" …
Officials from nearly 200 countries are gathered here to chalk out details of an agreement to cut the use of HFCs India on Thursday pitched for the formation of guidelines for enhancing flexibility, developing methodologies and ensuring transparency in phasing out of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas, to limit …
Diplomats meeting in Vienna this week hope to take a major step toward a deal under the Montreal Protocol to decrease the use of a potent greenhouse gas, in what could be the most significant measure to combat global warming since last year's Paris climate agreement. Officials from nearly 200 …
When the world moved to phase out ozone-destroying chlorofluorcarbons, or CFCs, it solved one enormous and urgent environmental problem — but it left behind another. CFCs were bad for the ozone layer and also caused a great deal of global warming to boot. But a key substitute — hydrofluorocarbons, or …
In a major new paper in the influential journal Science, a team of researchers report strikingly good news about a 30-year old environmental problem. The Antarctic ozone "hole" - which, when it was first identified in the mid-1980s, focused public attention like few other pieces of environmental news - has …
Climate change has been dear to both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama who, along with some other global leaders, played a crucial role in ensuring that a new post-2020 climate agreement was successfully negotiated in Paris last December. India has agreed to a major commitment on a …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama on Tuesday committed themselves to join the Paris climate change deal this year, which would provide a "significant global momentum" towards implementation of the historic agreement, a top White House official said. "The US reaffirms its commitment to join the agreement …
The Parties to the Montreal Protocol are informed by three Panels of experts. One of these is the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP), which deals with two focal issues. The first focus is the effects of increased UV radiation on human health, animals, plants, biogeochemistry, air quality, and materials. The …
The Maldives parliament accepted the Bill on Protection of the Ozone Layer and submitted it to an interim committee for review Sunday. The Bill was accepted with 61 of the 65 members present voting in favour. Submitting the Bill to the parliament, Dhiggaru MP Ahmed Faris Maumoon stated that the …
The decision to use the Montreal Protocol to reduce the impact of refrigerants on global warming is a step forward ahead of the Paris climate summit. (Editorial)
Research published at a meeting of the Montreal Protocol in Dubai reveals the serious human health and economic consequences averted by concerted and coordinated global action on the protecting the ozone layer. Synthesis of the 2014 Reports of the Scientific, Environmental Effects, and Technology & Economic Assessment Panels of the …
OSLO: If and when a global deal to curb climate change is done in Paris this December, the matter of enforcement is likely to be left not to sanctions but to peer pressure. While legally enforceable environmental treaties do exist, experts say that some of the most effective environmental controls …
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that the challenge of climate change can be overcome with technology and research. "If human intervention has caused climate change, with human intent and intellect and with new research and technology, we will win this war against climate change," Javadekar said. He was …
A sapling was gifted to every speaker on the dias at the inaugural function of state-level observation of International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. Forest Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, who inaugurated the function, said that human greed was the biggest adversary of Nature. He said that living in …
Europe continues to make progress in phasing out chemicals which damage the ozone layer according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report considers the use of more than 200 chemicals controlled by the Montreal Protocol and EU legislation.
HYDERABAD: A technology to manufacture hydrofluorocarbons used in refrigeration systems as a coolant to reduce global warming is ready to be transferred to the industry by the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology. As MNCs in the US, UK, France, Japan and China were not transferring the technology to any other …
Government is currently struggling to control the ODS because of its porous borders. AN unprecedented influx of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) could see Zimbabwe miss the United Nations 2030 deadline to phase out the substances, despite being one of the first countries to ratify the 1987 Montreal Protocol, having done so …
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are potent greenhouse gases. As HFCs have emerged as the pre-dominant alternative to ozone depleting substances, discussions are underway between the representatives of different parties of the Montreal Protocol (MP) to bring HFCs under the ambit of MP. The Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) of the Montreal Protocol …
Terming India's proposal to amend the Montreal protocol as "unambitious", the Delhi-based green body CSE released a proposal that allows cutting of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) consumption by 82 per cent. The proposal by green advocacy group Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) allows cutting of HFC consumption by 82 per cent …
India's amendment proposal to the Montreal Protocol for curbing green house gas emissions will help reduce the level of hydrofluorocarbon, one of the key pollutant gases, up to 64 per cent by 2050, a policy research think-tank today said. India had recently submitted its amendment proposal to Montreal Protocol, an …
The Antarctic ozone hole would have been 40% bigger by now if ozone-depleting chemicals had not been banned in the 1980s, according to research. Models also show that at certain times, a large hole would have opened up at the other end of the globe. The Arctic hole would have …
