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New ‘Ozone Heroes’ campaign celebrates efforts to protect all life on Earth In honour of the 30 th anniversary of the landmark Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Ozone Secretariat at UN Environment and all nations across the globe are rolling out a campaign to celebrate the international agreement’s success in protecting Earth against ozone depletion and mitigating climate change. The Montreal Protocol has led to the phase-out of more than 99 per cent of nearly 100 ozone-depleting chemicals and significantly contributed to climate change mitigation. It has also garnered the support of stakeholders from 197 countries, signaling a truly global effort to make changes for a greater good. As of today, the ozone layer is showing signs of healing and is set to recover by the middle of the century. In addition, the Protocol has contributed significantly to the mitigation of climate change by averting more than 135 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions going into the atmosphere from 1990 to 2010. Building on this success, parties to the Protocol agreed last year under the Kigali Amendment to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of chemicals that do not deplete the ozone layer but are powerful greenhouse gases and, thus, catalysts of climate change. Phasing down HFCs under the Protocol is expected to avoid up to 0.5°C of global warming by the end of the century, while continuing to protect the ozone layer. #OzoneHeroes Campaign Fulfilling the objectives of the Protocol called for unprecedented global collaboration and collective action. The Ozone Heroes campaign seeks to inspire the same collaborative energy that propelled the Montreal Protocol’s mission and led to its continued success in protecting all life on Earth. The campaign created by the Ozone Secretariat in partnership with Marvel, the company behind some of the world’s most beloved superheroes, will commence on the eve of World Ozone Day to be marked globally on 16 September. The campaign journey follows the Guardians of the Galaxy and Iron Man as they discover humans are the heroes who solved the global crisis of ozone depletion. The campaign serves to emphasize that our human qualities are what equip us to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
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New ‘Ozone Heroes’ campaign celebrates efforts to protect all life on Earth
In honour of the 30th anniversary of the landmark Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Ozone Secretariat at UN Environment and all nations across the globe are rolling out a campaign to celebrate the international agreement’s success in protecting Earth against ozone depletion and mitigating climate change.
The Montreal Protocol has led to the phase-out of more than 99 per cent of nearly 100 ozone-depleting chemicals and significantly contributed to climate change mitigation. It has also garnered the support of stakeholders from 197 countries, signaling a truly global effort to make changes for a greater good. As of today, the ozone layer is showing signs of healing and is set to recover by the middle of the century.
In addition, the Protocol has contributed significantly to the mitigation of climate change by averting more than 135 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions going into the atmosphere from 1990 to 2010.
Building on this success, parties to the Protocol agreed last year under the Kigali Amendment to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of chemicals that do not deplete the ozone layer but are powerful greenhouse gases and, thus, catalysts of climate change. Phasing down HFCs under the Protocol is expected to avoid up to 0.5°C of global warming by the end of the century, while continuing to protect the ozone layer.
#OzoneHeroes Campaign
Fulfilling the objectives of the Protocol called for unprecedented global collaboration and collective action. The Ozone Heroes campaign seeks to inspire the same collaborative energy that propelled the Montreal Protocol’s mission and led to its continued success in protecting all life on Earth.
The campaign created by the Ozone Secretariat in partnership with Marvel, the company behind some of the world’s most beloved superheroes, will commence on the eve of World Ozone Day to be marked globally on 16 September. The campaign journey follows the Guardians of the Galaxy and Iron Man as they discover humans are the heroes who solved the global crisis of ozone depletion. The campaign serves to emphasize that our human qualities are what equip us to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Everyone is invited to join the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol by participating in the campaign by visiting www.ozoneheroes.org where one can discover his or her own ozone superpower.
The Ozone Secretariat/UN Environment and the Government of Canada will co-host a campaign launch event on 15 September at the Science Centre in Montreal, where the agreement was originally signed. Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna will preside over the event to be attended by environmental ministers from around the world, UN representatives, scientists, policymakers, environmentalists and other stakeholders.
The Ozone Heroes campaign comes at a time when international collaboration is required in order to address pressing global issues and hopes to illuminate the ways in which human partnership can solve these issues as it did for the depletion of the ozone layer.
