{"id":537,"date":"2017-09-12T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/?p=537"},"modified":"2021-09-09T23:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:26:07","slug":"montreal-protocol-turns-30-antarctic-ozone-season-about-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/2017\/09\/12\/montreal-protocol-turns-30-antarctic-ozone-season-about-to-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Protocol turns 30, Antarctic ozone season about to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Irina Petropavlovskikh, CIRES and NOAA scientist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International Day for Preservation of Ozone Layer will be celebrated on September 16, 2017 under the auspices of the &nbsp;United Nations Environmental Program ( UNEP), and many international organizations will join in celebration.After 197 countries ratified the multilateral environmental agreement of the Montreal Protocol 30 years ago, &nbsp;UNEP became an implementing Agency of the agreement. This year, UNEP declared \u201cCaring for all life under the Sun\u201d as the theme for the international ozone day . For more information, go to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/drustage.unep.org\/ozonaction\/international-day-preservation-ozone-layer-2017\">UNEP webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/09\/30MP-logo-1-300x284.png\" alt=\"Logo of the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol\" class=\"wp-image-31\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>2017 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, and there are several events planned to celebrate that anniversary. A scientific symposium will gather scientists, students, the public, and policy makers in Paris, France on September 19-20 under the theme, \u201cFrom the safeguard of the ozone layer to the protection of the Earth climate.\u201d\u00a0Hailed as an example of exceptional international cooperation for the protection of the ozone layer, the Montreal Protocol became the first international treaty to achieve universal ratification, in 2010. In October 2016, the Kigali amendment was added to the Protocol to control the growth of substitutes of ozone depleting substances, some of which are powerful greenhouse gases, and thereby mitigate their impact on the Earth\u2019s climate. More information about the Montreal Protocol is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montreal30.io3c.org\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the current state of the ozone layer at South Pole and to learn what happens to ozone during Antarctic\u2019s spring ozone season, follow this blog and visit NOAA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/gmd\/dv\/spo_oz\/\">South Pole Ozone<\/a> webpage.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Irina Petropavlovskikh, CIRES and NOAA scientist International Day for Preservation of Ozone Layer will be celebrated on September 16, 2017 under the auspices of the &nbsp;United Nations Environmental Program ( UNEP), and many international organizations will join in celebration.After 197 countries ratified the multilateral environmental agreement of the Montreal Protocol 30 years ago, &nbsp;UNEP&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/2017\/09\/12\/montreal-protocol-turns-30-antarctic-ozone-season-about-to-begin\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 04:15:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/southpoleozone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}