World Ozone Day 2019

(Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change)

 

WHAT

On World Ozone Day, India’s Cooling Action Plan gets United Nations to applaud.

• A booklet on ‘Montreal Protocol – India’s Success Story’ and poster and sticker of award winning students were also released on the occasion of the World Ozone Day.

 

THEME

• “32 years and healing” is the theme of 25th World Ozone Day celebrations.
• The theme signifies over three decades of remarkable international cooperation to protect the ozone layer and also the climate system under the Montreal Protocol.

 

INDIA’s COOLING ACTION PLAN

• India became one of the first countries in the world to launch a comprehensive Cooling Action plan in March, 2019.
• The has a long term vision to address the cooling requirement across sectors such as residential and commercial buildings, cold-chain, refrigeration, transport and industries.
• The India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP) lists out actions which can help reduce the cooling demand, which will also help in reducing both direct and indirect emissions.

 

India Cooling Action seeks to

1. Reduce cooling demand across sectors by 20% to 25% by 2037-38
2. Reduce refrigerant demand by 25% to 30% by 2037-38
3. Reduce cooling energy requirements by 25% to 40% by 2037-38
4. Recognize “cooling and related areas” as a thrust area of research under national S&T Programme
5. Training and certification of 100,000 servicing sector technicians by 2022-23, synergizing with Skill India Mission.

 

MoUs

The Ministry has also signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET), for providing Competency Enhancement of System Houses and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the foam manufacturing sector for ensuring smooth and sustainable phase out of HCFC-141b.

 

WORLD OZONE DAY

• September 16 was designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.
• This designation had been made on December 19, 2000, in commemoration of the date, in 1987, on which nations signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
• In 1994, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 16 September the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing, in 1987, of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

 

Source: PIB

 

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