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This is what you have been waiting for! There is now a small corner of cyberspace where you can find out more about ozone layer protection and its linkages with climate change.Journalist letter
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Bhutan Raising Gross National Happiness: Deriving Climate Benefits from Ozone Layer Protection
Bhutan  Raising Gross National HappinessThimpu, 10 August 2010 - Today, a small country in the lap of Himalaya has taken a giant step. Bhutan, one of the few countries in the world where sustainable development is embedded in its constitution, has made a historic decision to further advance the phase out of the Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) – a powerful Green House Gas and Ozone Depleting substance by 10 years.
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JumpStart Partnership Achieving Climate Benefit from HCFC Phase-out
29 July 2010, Brussels – Up to 25 GtCO2-eq. emissions between now andJumpStart Partnership meeting, Brussels, 29 July 2010 2050 could be eliminated through the phase-out of Hydrochloro-fluorocarbons (HCFCs). Such phase-out will also bring a net benefit of advancing the recovery of the ozone layer by up to 3.3 years. Today a tool-box developed by the OzonAction Branch of UNEP DTIE, with the support of the European Commission (ENRTP), the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, was launched to help developing countries to contribute to this goal.
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The Unparalleled Success of the Montreal Protocol Shows that Action on Millennium Development Goals Report 2010Climate Change is Within our Grasp
Without the action prompted by the Montreal Protocol and its Vienna Convention, atmospheric levels of ozone-depleting substances would grow 10-fold by 2050. The resulting exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation would likely have led to up to 20 million additional cases of skin cancer and 130 million more cases of eye cataracts; it would also have caused damage to human immune systems, wildlife and agriculture. For much of the world, the time it takes to get sunburned would have been dramatically reduced, due to a 500-per cent increase in DNA-damaging ultraviolet radiation...
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Pakistan Committed to its Obligations
03 July, 2010, Islamabad – Pakistan is fully committed to its international obligations towards protecting the earth and its fragile atmosphere, Minister for Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi said.

He expressed these views while addressing an international seminar on 'Impact of Ozone Depleting Substances and Energy Efficiency in Defence Applications', held in Bhurban by the Ministry of Environment in collaboration with United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).
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SOURCE: The News, Pakistan

Major climate decisions brewing in obscure ozone treaty talks
18 June 2010-
Governments moved closer Friday to curbing the use of chemicals commonly used as coolants in refrigerators, air conditioners, hair spray and other household items in what some say would be among their biggest climate decisions ever.

The obscure round of U.N. ozone treaty talks in Geneva, which few people are following, laid the groundwork this week for a possible decision in Uganda in November to halt the promotion of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are manmade chemicals not found naturally in the environment, and are considered greenhouse gases.
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Maldives is Walking the Talk: Deriving Climate Benefits from Ozone Layer Protection
Group photo at Inauguration of the High-Level Roundtable Dialogue on HPMP, MaldivesMale, 10 June 2010- Today, President Mohamed Nasheed, the Vice President and a number of ministers from the Maldives announced an important Joint Declaration for the Implementation of the HCFC Phase out Management Plan (HPMP) during the inauguration of the High-Level Roundtable Dialogue on HPMP and its contribution on Carbon Neutrality.

"We believe that going green isn't just ecologically sound but also President Mohamed Nasheedeconomically beneficial. The Maldives is famed for its luxury resorts, whose refrigeration systems are the source of most of the country's HCFC emissions. Moving early to phase out the use of HCFCs not only helps protect the beautiful tropical environment tourists come to see but also positions Maldives as a strong eco-destination" said President Nasheed."
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