'Low
Hanging Fruits' - Climate Benefit from Ozone Layer Protection
Accumulating evidence indicates that the phase-out of
substances known as chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs has,
since 1990, alleviated the progression of climate change
by as much as 12 years. International cooperation on
CFCs is a timely affirmation that, through unity of
purpose and concerted action, we can minimize risks
to our planet and build a safer world for future generations.
It is a lesson we must take to heart... Read
more... 4 December
2009
Upgrading Ozone Layer Treaty to Assist in Combating
Climate Change Key Issue at International Meeting in
Egypt
Accelerating the contribution of a treaty to protect
the ozone layer towards meeting the climate change challenge
will take place at the 21st Meeting of the Parties to
the Montreal Protocol in the Red Sea resort of Port
Ghalib, Egypt, from 4-8 November. Read
more... 2 November
2009
Bangladeshi
President calls for changing lifestyle The
president of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman, has urged all
concerned to bring changes in their lifestyle so that
the environment can be saved from the dire damages of
the climate change . Read
more... 24 October
2009
Ozone
and Climate treaties exploring the common ground Journalists
and broadcasters play a key role as 'knowledge brokers'
in helping the world respond to the multitude of challenges
posed by climate change, said Marco González,
Executive Secretary of the UNEP Ozone Secretariat.
Read more... 15 October
2009
Two
treaties with a planet at stake THE
two protocols - the Kyoto Protocol and the Montreal
Protocol - stand in stark contrast to each other. But
the future of the world as we know it depends on them.
Read
more... 15 October
2009
Two treaties with a planet at stake THE
two protocols - the Kyoto Protocol and the Montreal
Protocol - stand in stark contrast to each other. But
the future of the world as we know it depends on them.
Read
more... 15 October
2009 Reducing
Abrupt Climate Change Rrisk Using the Montreal Protocol
and Other Regulatory Actions to Complement Cuts in CO2
Emissions Current
emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) have
already committed the planet to an increase in average
surface temperature by the end of the century that may
be above the critical threshold for tipping elements
of the climate system into abrupt change with potentially
irreversible and unmanageable consequences.
9 October 2009
Reducing Abrupt Climate Change Rrisk Using the Montreal
Protocol and Other Regulatory Actions to Complement
Cuts in CO2 Emissions Current
emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) have
already committed the planet to an increase in average
surface temperature by the end of the century that may
be above the critical threshold for tipping elements
of the climate system into abrupt change with potentially
irreversible and unmanageable consequences.
9 October 2009
Climate change media training 28 September
2009