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Useful Ozone Related Links

• Ozone Secretariat Mirror Site in Geneva

• Multilateral Fund Secretariat for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances

• UNEP OzonAction Programme
  International Ozone Day

• Technology and Economic Assessment Panel(TEAP)
  The TEAP site provides information about the work and reports of the Technology and Economic Assesment panel as well as about its seven Technical Options Committees (TOC's). You can download several reports from this site.

• UNEP/TEAP Solvents Technical Options Committee

• UNEP and UN Organizations

• Government

• Others

UNEP and UN Organizations

International Environmental Convention Secretariats

• Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste

• Convention on Biological Diversity

• Convention on Climate Change

• Convention to Combat Desertification

• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

• Conservation of Migratory Species (The Bonn Convention)

• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

• World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Ozone Mapping Centre Provides a list of daily ozone maps of the northern hemisphere taken daily between November 1- March 31

• (OAIC) OzoneAction Information Clearinghouse This site, part of the clearinghouse function provided by UNEP Industry and Environment's OzonAction Programme under the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, provides a range of information to assist developing countries phase out their use of ozone depleting substances. It includes the online OzonAction newsletter, technical data (e.g. trade names and composition of chemical products containing ODS and their alternatives), full-text publications (e.g. fact sheets, information papers, guidelines), contacts for assistance around the world, policies and procedures of the Executive Committee, and much more.

• WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1998 This NOAA site contains the text of the Executive Summary of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1998, (including "Frequently Asked Questions About Ozone")

• Our Planet Look through Issue Volume 9, Number 2 1997, which focuses on the Ozone Layer depletion.

• UNEP's GEF Financed Activities on the Stratospheric Ozone Layer

• Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

• United Nations Environment Programme, Economics and Trade Unit

If you have an Ozone related site, or know of one, that is not listed and think it qualifies as a legitimate ozone source, please contact us with the URL. The Ozone Secretariat reserves the right to decline linking to sites that it views as unsatisfactory in content with respect to ozone related information.

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Government

United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

• EPA & Ozone Depletion Contains information on Ozone Depletion Science, US Regulations, Methyl Bromide, UV Index, International Policy, Information for the General Public and Events related to ozone depletion.

• NASA Site has a lot of Ozone related information. Use their search facility with the keyword Ozone.

• NOAA Site Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research has a lot of Ozone related information including pictures. Use their search facility with the keyword Ozone.

• The Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC)

Environment Canada

• Stratospheric Ozone Layer. Contains information on: State of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer, Canadian Federal Statutes, FAQs about ozone and an Ozone quiz.

• Canadian Initiatives in Methyl Bromide Alternatives and Emmission Control Technologies

If you have an Ozone related site, or know of one, that is not listed and think it qualifies as a legitimate ozone source, please contact me with the URL. The Ozone Secretariat reserves the right to decline linking to sites that it views as unsatisfactory in content with respect to ozone related information.

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Others

• AFEAS (Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study) General information about ozone depletion, global warming and alternative fluorocarbons plus production, sales and emissions data.

• CIESIN Thematic Guides *Provisional Release* Welcome to the CIESIN thematic guide on ozone depletion issues. The purpose of this guide is to help you find selected key documents that pertain to the issue of ozone depletion: causes, human and environmental effects, and policy responses...

• APE-GAIA (Geophysica Aircraft In Antarctica)
  A scientific programme of the Italian Antarctic Research Programme (Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide, PNRA), aimed at studying the physical and chemical processes responsible for the depletion of the Antarctic stratospheric ozone layer, using innovative instrumentation operating on board the high-altitude M55-Geophysica aircraft.

• ELDIS is a database and WWW gateway to information sources in development and the environment. Each entry contains a short description of the source, a URL link where appropriate and contact information.

• Globelaw - International Environmental Law and Multilateral Environmental Treaties.

• Information Sheet on Ultraviolet Radiation. The human eye responds to light with wavelengths from about 790 nm (red) to 430 nm (violet).

• Ozone Action. Simple fact sheets on Ozone Depletion and Climate Change. Learn more about the black market in CFCs and alternatives to Ozone Depleting Substances.

• Ozone-depletion FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions Introduction to the Ozone Layer. Stratospheric Chlorine and Bromine...

• PAFT (Programme for Alternative Fluorocarbon Toxicity Testing) Summary of research on the toxicology of substitute fluorocarbons.

• Protonique - Written by a member of the UNEP Solvents, Coatings and Adhesives Technical Options Committee, this gives much practical advice for electronics manufacturers phasing out ozone depleting solvents with minimum risk of causing other environmental problems.

• SEDAC PURPOSE -- to provide data and resources in the areas of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, ozone, and human health impacts of UV exposure for use by researchers, educators, government officials, health providers, students, and the general public.

• NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research

• Global Change home page This publication is one of many sources of information on Solstice, an Internet server owned and operated by the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST).

• Zerstörung des stratosphärischen Ozons. This is one of the few, if not the only, set of German language text and figures which make an attempt to explain ozone depletion for German Speakers.

• The European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit

• The Ozone Hole Tour

• The US Global Change Research Information Office

• Ozone Action: Washington, DC based non-profit public interest organization focused exclusively on two atmospheric threats: global warming and stratospheric ozone depletion.

• Ozone Exercises - Popular Education

• Friends of the Earth - USA

• Eurasian - American Partnership for Enviromentally Sustainable Economies

• Neumayer Antarctic Research Station where you can find the ozone soundings from Neumayer-Station (Antarctica). They get updated near real time.

• The Montreal Protocol: India's Success Story

• The Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy

• Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA): Methyl Bromide Topics and Documents

• Earth Negotiation Bulletin Coverage of 11MOP[ 29 Nov | 30 Nov | 1 Dec | 2 Dec | 3 Dec ] 

• Earth Negotiation Bulletin Coverage of the 20OEWG Meeting

• Map of the Ozone Hole |More information about the Ozone Hole