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International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone
Layer 2004

Drawing by Michelle Klink, aged 16, Namibia, ‘Happiness. Let’s Heal the World’

Save O3ur Sky:
Ozone Friendly Planet,
Our Target

Examples of how National Ozone Units have
Celebrated Ozone Day

  • Use of the mass media to raise awareness
  • Organising lectures for general audiences
  • Public activities for children, including paintings on giant banners
  • Organizing activities/competitions in schools: essay, poetry and poster painting competitions, quizzes, conducting inventories of CFC-using equipment, counting the number of refrigerators and air conditioners.
  • Organizing industry exhibitions/trade fairs to show ozone friendly equipment
  • Broadcasting a TV series on ozone protection on the national TV station
  • Broadcast a special programme on National radio
  • Organizing a talk show on ozone protection
  • Publishing a series of articles in the national newspaper
  • Holding public logo design competitions
  • Issuing a special magazine or issue of an environmental ministry newsletter
  • Distributing umbrellas with ozone protection messages on them.
  • Publishing posters
  • Organizing workshops in cooperation with NGOs
  • Distributing a booklet describing the Country Programme, NOU and national strategy to comply with the Montreal Protocol
  • Developing an ozone protection postal stamp
  • Establishing a website for the NOU
  • Publishing a book on Questions and Answers about the Atmosphere
  • Holding an industry voluntary pledge signing ceremony
  • Distributing environmentally-friendly bags, vehicle stickers, and normal stickers
  • Displaying large banners at key intersections/locations
  • Organizing video competitions
  • Convening high-level forums with ministers.
  • Publishing a textbook
  • Organizing seminars for ozone officers of municipalities.
  • Presenting awards to persons who contributed to promoting ozone layer protection activities.
  • Organizing meetings with industry to review measures taken to comply with the Montreal Protocol

Extract from Communication Strategy for Global Compliance with the Montreal Protocol (UNEP DTIE OzonAction Programme, 2002)

  
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