This year World Ozone Day is held under the theme Montreal Protocol: fixing the ozone layer and reducing climate change. Today, we celebrate the achievements of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. This year’s theme highlights and reiterates the positive impact of the Montreal Protocol on ozone layer recovery and reducing climate change. Especially emphasizing the Kigali Amendment, which through the phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and improved efficiency in the cooling sector, will provide additional climate mitigation benefits. Follow the conversation with the hashtags: #16September, #WorldOzoneDay, #MontrealProtocol, #KigaliAmendment, #Ozonelayer, #climatechange.
The international treaties to protect the ozone layer have made a dramatic and measurable difference to protecting people and planet. They show the power of multilateralism. And they should inspire hope that, together, we can avert the worst of climate change and build a sustainable and resilient world.
Limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius is still possible if we immediately and drastically accelerate climate action. I have proposed a Climate Solidarity Pact and an Acceleration Agenda to help achieve this. I urge all leaders to work together to put them into effect – and to support these efforts by getting behind the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and limiting planet-heating hydrofluorocarbons.
Fully ratifying and implementing the Kigali Amendment could avoid up to 0.5°C of warming by 2100. Combining the transition away from planet-heating gases with energy efficiency measures in cooling equipment could double this figure.
I call on all countries to ratify the Amendment. And I urge governments, along with business leaders, civil society, academia, youth groups, local communities, and others, to intensify efforts to bring about real change, and to ensure developing countries have the support they need to do so.
Let’s harness the spirit of the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol to build a world where humans, nature and the planet thrive together.
United Nations Secretary-General.
Statement by the United Nations Environment Programme Executive Director for World Ozone Day 2023.
EVENTS: Joins a group of speakers on September 16th to mark the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 2023 and to talk about the 'Implementation of HFC phase down as per Kigali Amendment'. Register to participate to the webinar!
Activities by Parties/Countries
- Lebanon: Video
- Poland: World Ozone Day Pullout 1 | World Ozone Day Pullout 2 | World Ozone Day Pullout 3 | World Ozone Day Pullout 4
- Spain: Poster | Video | The UN Secretary-General´s message (Spanish)
CAMPAIGN MATERIALS
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