Sentences with phrase «depleted ozone layer»

And it was well recognized that a depleted ozone layer would lead to more skin cancer.

Now, thanks to global warming and a depleted ozone layer, they can exist above ground.

It is also to identify with rocks and trees, hills and rivers; with experimental mice and slaughtered cows; with a depleted ozone layer and shrinking forests.

The Montreal Protocol required countries to phase out chlorofluorocarbon — or CFC — from use in refrigerators, air conditioners and other uses because it depleted the ozone layer.

Trader Joe's agreed to spend $ 2 million to reduce refrigerator coolant leaks at 453 stores, to settle federal claims it failed to promptly repair leaks that deplete the ozone layer and contribute to global warming.

Fresh food — natural food — sham — The popular U.S. grocery chain Trader Joe's Co agreed to spend $ 2 million to reduce refrigerator coolant leaks at 453 stores, to settle federal claims it failed to promptly repair leaks that deplete the ozone layer and contribute to global warming.

The popular U.S. grocery chain Trader Joe's Co agreed to spend $ 2 million to reduce refrigerator coolant leaks at 453 stores, to settle federal claims it failed to promptly repair leaks that deplete the ozone layer and contribute to global warming.

• We are depleting the ozone layer, which protects us from the harmful effects of the sun's radiation.

Ozone depleting substances (ODSs) are those substances which deplete the ozone layer and are widely used in refrigerators, airconditioners, fire extinguishers, in dry cleaning, as solvents for cleaning, electronic equipment and as agricultural fumigants.

The Act implements Australia's obligations as a Party to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the Montreal Protocol).

Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, methyl bromide can only be used for a non-Quarantine and Pre-Shipment application if a critical use exemption has been approved by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol.

HCFCs are themselves replacements for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), ozone - destroying chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

Some scientists suggest that giant radiation flares could deplete the ozone layer of a planet by 94 % for two years and could even be fatal for all life.

In the 1980s, under conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada led the way in international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enacted.

They are made of fluorinated hydrocarbons which will not deplete the ozone layer, but they are less efficient at putting out fires.

Some air conditioners still use chemicals that deplete the ozone layer and demand for air - conditioners is expected to rise as a result of global warming, so green buildings could help counter this demand.

those substances (chiefly chlorofluorocarbons — CFCs) are still thought to be depleting the ozone layer — which is in the stratosphere, some 30 km above the ground - level ozone that people shouldn't be breathing.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

She is the type of chick that you couldn't be entirely sure of her age — she can be either 18 or 30 — because her skin looks too good to have spent under our depleting ozone layer.

Their use is growing rapidly as replacements for ozone - depleting substances that are being phased out under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

While they do not deplete the ozone layer, many are highly potent greenhouse gases.

So when we do things that emit GHGs, we also likely emit local pollution that kills, & becomes regional acid rain (destroying lakes, crops & forests), & acidifies the ocean, depletes the ozone layer (some pollutants), and maybe a hundre other harms, in addition to contributing to GW, and to runaway GW.

In addition to the Kyoto Protocol, Liechtenstein has ratified the UN Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

Twenty years after the Montreal Protocol came into effect to regulate substances that deplete the ozone layer, the annual ozone hole above Antarctica shows no signs of recovery.

However, in phasing out CFCs, humans created new gases, HFCs, which do not deplete the ozone layer, but are hundreds to thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer («Montreal Protocol») is often cited as the most successful international environmental agreement — having successfully forced the phase - out of more than ninety - eight percent of ozone - depleting substances («ODS»), placing the ozone layer on the road to recovery by the end of the twenty - first century.

Although concentrations should level off as the Montreal Protocol on Substances which Deplete the Ozone Layer is implemented, CFCs have long life - times, and their effects will be felt for many decades to come.

The same gases that deplete the ozone layer happen to also be potent greenhouse gases themselves.

It is changing the composition of species in ecosystems, reducing soil fertility, depleting the ozone layer, intensifying climate change, and creating dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and other near - coastal seas.

This Special Report was prepared following a request from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The final day of the twenty - eighth Meeting of the Parties (MOP 28) to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer convened on Friday, 14 October 2016, in Kigali, Rwanda.

The twenty - eighth Meeting of the Parties (MOP 28) to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer convened for its second day in Kigali, Rwanda on Tuesday, 11 October 2016.

The document provides background information on the matter, summarizes the developments under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, and highlights a number of options to address the implications of the establishment of new HCFC - 22 facilities seeking to obtain certified emission reductions for the destruction of HFC - 23.

Russian researchers compare the Kyoto Protocol to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which called for phasing out Freon - 12 as a preferred refrigerant.

-- If the United States becomes a party or otherwise adheres to a multilateral agreement, including any amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which restricts the production or consumption of class II, group II substances --

UNEP News Center: The 197 Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer discussed various issues regarding the protection of the earth's fragile ozone layer, during the 34th Meeting of the Open - Ended Working Group of the Parties, conducted from 14 to 18 July in Paris, France.

-- If the United States becomes a party or otherwise adheres to a multilateral agreement, including any amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which restricts the production or consumption of class II, group II substances, the Administrator may utilize funds to meet any related contribution obligation of the United States to the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol or similar multilateral fund established under such multilateral agreement.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which has resulted in the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a group of industrial compounds that react with and disassociate ozone molecules, is a collective adaptive response by humans to a perceived and predicted threat to life from stratospheric ozone depletion.

Halogenated gases currently contribute 12 % to overall radiative forcing.1 While actions under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) are already addressing CFCs and HCFCs, atmospheric concentrations of some HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) are rising rapidly, by more than 23 % each year.

Over the last 21 years global implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) as successfully phased out the consumption and production of ozone - depleting substances (ODS) by 95 % in developed countries and 50 - 75 % of the ODS in developing countries.

As a result of the discovery of ozone depletion and the scientific advances that delineated its causes, efforts to reduce the production, and ultimately the atmospheric concentrations, of ozone - depleting chemicals were begun in the late 1980s through the ratification of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer by many countries across the globe.

Other classes of GHGs are included in the Montreal Protocol for Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and its subsequent amendments and are the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), halons, and chlorine - and bromine - containing (halogenated) solvents (methyl chloroform (CH3CCl3), carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), bromochloromethane (CH2BrCl), etc.).

Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (UN, 1987).

That incentive has driven plants in the developing world not only to increase production of the coolant gas but also to keep it high — a huge problem because the coolant itself contributes to global warming and depletes the ozone layer.

AM: HFCs are man - made fluorinated chemicals that do not deplete the ozone layer but are potent greenhouse gases.

We also look to the Montreal Protocol on Substances the Deplete the Ozone Layer, often considered the world's most successful environmental treaty, for a reality check.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the first treaty to have been ratified by every nation on Earth, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017.

The Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer struck a landmark deal in October 2016 in Kigali to reduce the emissions of powerful greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Their use is growing because they are being widely adopted as replacements for O3 - depleting substances (ODS), including chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), which are being phased out under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The Montreal Protocol is a multilateral environmental agreement that is successfully preventing massive damage to human health and the environment from excessive ultraviolet radiation from the sun by phasing out the production and consumption of substances that deplete the ozone layer.