Sentences with phrase «to deplete the ozone layer»

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

The threat of large increases in skin cancers has been avoided due to the success of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in controlling ozone depletion, according to the newly published «Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion and its Interactions with Climate Change: 2014 Assessment» report, produced by the Environmental Effects Assessment [continue reading...]

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 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.

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.

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

In October 2016, parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer unanimously agreed to amend the Protocol to allow for the phasedown of the super greenhouse gases...

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.

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.

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).

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.

Surachart has more than ten years of experience in Digital Communications, Knowledge Management and Information Technology Management at global organizations in Europe and Asia, including the UN Environment's Compliance Assistance Programme for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in Asia - Pacific region and other international organizations in the environmental technology industry.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Actions taken under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer are enabling the return of the ozone layer to benchmark 1980 levels.

The new Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics study raises the alarm over fast - increasing emissions of some of these very short - lived chemicals in East Asia, and shows how they can be carried up into the stratosphere and deplete the ozone layer.

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

Beginning in 1987, the internationally agreed - upon Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer has regulated these ozone - depleting compounds, such as chlorine - containing chlorofluorocarbons used in refrigerants and bromine - containing halon gases used as fire suppressants.

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.

Up to now, this ethically flawed situation has been tolerable because Congress clearly specified the types of substances over which EPA has regulatory authority — those that degrade air quality, those that pose acute risks of toxicity, and those that deplete the ozone layer.

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.

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

In todays street legal world, a world where CO2 is increasing the oceans acidity and nitrous oxides are taking the place of CFC's in depleting the ozone layer, there is a fortune to be made in exhausts that truely have clean emissions.

Research related to atmospheric constituents that are capable of forcing change in the climate of the Earth or that may deplete the ozone layer is contained on this site.

Thanks to our depleted ozone layer, it felt more like midsummer, as legions of local and foreign tourists amassed on the large lawn besides the London Eye.

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.

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.

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.

To recreate the conditions using sulphuric acid would deplete the ozone layer and produce changes in the regional patterns of rainfall.

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.

Today is the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, not the most showy or emotive global observance but arguably one of the most important as it commemorates the 1987 signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

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.