An Agreement has been signed between the Ministry of Environment and Energy and Maldives Customs Service to increase the collaboration between the two parties in implementing the “Montreal Protocol

Maldives will soon ban the import of goods containing environmentally harmful hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC), environment minister Mariyam Shakeela said Thursday.

Maldives joins Micronesia as a co-sponsor of the proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol to include the HFC phase-down under the Montreal Protocol.

‘Introduce Gross Environmental Product in planning and implementation activities’

Anil Joshi, founder of the Himalayan Environmental Studies & Conservation Organisation (HESCO) here, has urged the Uttarakhand Government to play the forerunner by introducing Gross Environmental Product (GEP) in its planning and implementation activities as the highly endangered health of the natural resources needed to be improved before it was too late.

The Ozone Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) conferred a honor to the Chinese government for its contribution to ozone layer protection in an event marking this year's Int

The hole in the ozone layer, the earth's protective shield against ultraviolet rays, is expected to be smaller this year over the Antarctic than last, showing how a ban on harmful substances has st