Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long range Transboundary Air Pollution to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground level Ozone.

That sounds great. The world can increasingly focus aid on the main environmental problems indoor and outdoor air pollution, along with lead and ozone pollution that cause almost all environment related deaths.

The data is fundamental to our understanding of contemporary processes of global relevance such as ozone depletion, atmospheric pollution, climate change, the melting of ice shelves and glaciers and sea level rise.

Scientists now estimate that somewhere close to 50 of climate change is being caused by gases and pollutants other than CO2, including nitrogen compounds, low level ozone formed by pollution, and black carbon.

Of greatest concern are three closely intertwined issues the occurrence of health damaging air pollution the build up of heat trapping greenhouse gases and the depletion of the Earth's protective stratospheric ozone layer.

Ozone depletion

This can bring the benefits of better synergy among other environmental goals because this ministry is often charged to deal with other local and global environmental issues, such as pollution control, biodiversity, desertification and ozone depletion.

C. Stratospheric ozone

C. Changes to the Ozone Secretariat website invitation for suggestions The Ozone Secretariat is in the process of making changes to the Ozone website.

In addition to the above noted activities, scientific and other research related activities that were reported on included studies on ozone variation, temperature influences on ozone, the interaction between ozone and climate and climactic profiles of ozone.

The full assessment reports can be viewed at http www.unep.org ozone and http www.unep.ch ozone

The full assessment reports can be viewed at http www.unep.org ozone and http www.unep.ch ozone

Source Ozone Secretariat database.

Deplete the Ozone Layer

Deplete the Ozone Layer

ODS ozone depleting substances

Ozone Depletion 50 million

Pollution shun !

Air pollution

Pollution Pollution in this region has been extremely high in recent years.

Trafficking in ozone depleting substances

And pollution shun .

Air pollution atmosphere

Long range pollution

Industrial agriculture is widely considered to impose social costs through pesticide pollution and nitrate pollution.

Groundwater pollution is interrelated with the pollution of other environmental media (surface water, soils, atmosphere).

Current state of the ozone layer.

To request the Ozone Secretariat to

Source calculated from Ozone Secretariat data

illegal trade in ozone depleting substances

Illegal trade in ozone depleting substances is controlled by the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which aims to gradually reduce and finally phase out all ozone depleting substances.

Industrial Pollution in Japan .

Anthropogenic underwater noise pollution

Prevention of marine pollution

Those Parties who celebrated Ozone Day this year are to be commended and all Parties are urged to consider celebrating Ozone Day as a way of promoting awareness both of the ozone regime and of the continuing need for vigilance in our efforts to protect the ozone layer.

Ozone Day celebration As noted above, the Secretariat helped celebrate Ozone Day in 2005 in Vienna, through the conduct of a seminar on the ozone regime and the reception hosted by the Government of Austria.

All of these ozone depleting substances contain either chlorine or bromine (substances containing only fluorine do not harm the ozone layer).

A5 countries classified according to UNEP regional networks of ozone officers A5 countries only, including Turkey Calculated from Ozone Secretariat data.

on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer

Pollution is damaging our earth.

Ozone is tri atomic oxygen, O3 ozone molecules absorb harmful UV light in the atmosphere before it reaches the surface of the earth.

Future ozone concentrations are mainly driven by the changes in stratospheric halogen loading, with ozone recovery occurring after the peak of halogen loading.

Montreal Protocol Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, 16 Sept. 1987, as amended, http www.unep.org ozone pdfs Montreal Protocol2000.pdf.

Regional Network Coordination for Ozone Depleting Substances

Monitoring and preventing illegal trade in ozone depleting