| Description |
Mouthpiece of the Montreal Protocol. A newsletter dedicated to stratospheric ozone protection and the implementation of the Montreal Protocol, providing the most recent information on ozone protection activities from industry, governments, NGOs, and international organisations. Special supplements are devoted to current topics of particular interest to Article 5 countries. The OzonAction Newsletter is the pre-eminent international news source dedicated to the protection of the ozone layer and implementation of the Montreal Protocol. This newsletter is produced by the UNEP DTIE OzonAction Programme and financially supported by the Multilateral Fund. It is published 3 times per year and is available in hardcopy and on-line in PDF format in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
The current subscriber base for English, French and Spanish is approximately 9,000 individuals. Another 6,000 subscribers combined receive the Chinese, Russian and Arabic versions of the newsletter. Many more individuals in the thousands download the electronic version of the newsletter from this web page.
Review Board: The members of the editorial review board for the newsletter are:
Dr S. Andersen, Ms M. Barbut, Dr N. Campbell, Dr S. Carvalho, Mr P. Horwitz, Mrs I. Kökeritz, Dr L. Kuijpers, Mr G. Nardini, Mr D. Omotosho, Mr M. González, Mr R. Shende, Mr D. Stirpe, Mr Liu Yi.
Other persons involved in the production of the newsletter are:
Editor: Mr Robert Lamb
Publication Manager: Ms Anne Fenner
Information Manager: Mr Jim Curlin
Design and Production: Typhon
Our partners in the regions: Some of the non-English language versions of the newsletter are developed in cooperation with our colleagues in the regions. The translation, layout and dissemination throughout West Asia of the Arabic version of the newsletter is made possible by the kind cooperation of the Ozone Unit of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA). The translation, layout and dissemination throughout China of the Chinese version of the newsletter is made possible by the kind cooperation of the Ozone Unit of the State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA).
Contribution of news items: If you have ozone protection news that you would like to share with others, we would be pleased to consider it for inclusion in the next issue of the newsletter. Please send any news to: Anne Fenner, Publication Manager, afenner@unep.fr.
Feedback: We encourage you to provide your feedback about the quality and content of the Newsletter by using our on-line survey.
Evaluation of the Newsletter: The OzonAction Newsletter was one of UNEP's clearinghouse services that was independently evaluated as part of the Multilateral Fund's 2001 Monitoring and Evaluation Work Programme. The full text of the evaluation report is available on this website.
Subscriptions: The newsletter is provided free-of-charge to interested persons. If you would like to subscribe to the hardcopy version of the newsletter, please send an email to ozonaction@unep.fr indicating (a) your name, title, organization, mailing address, country and postal code (b) which language version you would like to receive. |
