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Programmes/Projects - Ozone Layer Protection

UNDP, within the framework of its MDG Support Services, assists developing countries and countries with economies in transition in complying with the Montreal Protocol's control measures through the following means:

Capacity Development - Provision of assistance to governments in developing more effective national policies and programmes to meet compliance targets for eliminating ODS including the development of country programmes, institutional strengthening projects and national phase-out management plans.

Technical Assistance, Training and Demonstration Programmes - Provision of technical support and dissemination of information regarding ozone friendly alternatives through practical, hands-on training sessions and in-field demonstrations, designed to build technical and economic confidence in alternative substances and processes.

Technology Transfer - Provision of best available technologies and related technical assistance to allow enterprises and governments to adopt alternative production processes and ozone-friendly technologies.

Examples of UNDP - Montreal Protocol supported activities and success stories:

Colombia: national phase-out plan for annex A substances

Costa Rica: refrigerant management plan

Cuba: phase-out of CFC consumption in the manufacture of Aerosol Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs)

Georgia: incentive programme for end-users in the commercial/industrial refrigeration and refrigeration transport sub-sector

Ghana: training programme for terminal phase-out of MethylBromide (MeBr) use in Ghana

Jamaica: implementation of Terminal Phase-Out Management Plan (TPMP)

Latin America and the Caribbean: chillers demonstration project to encourage cross-convention synergies

Togo: national programme on the recovery and recycling of refrigerants

 

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Managing Chemicals for Sustainable Development

Certain types of chemicals (such as Persistent Organic Pollutants) can build up to dangerous levels in humans causing adverse reproductive, developmental, immunological, hormonal and carcinogenic effects. With respect to reproductive health, exposure to these chemicals can lead to miscarriages, low birth weight babies and premature births. Women who have accumulated these kind of chemicals in their lipids or body fat can pass as much as one third of their toxic burden to their infant children, both prenatally and after birth (through breastfeeding).

Sound Management of Chemicals can lower a women's risk of contamination, improve maternal health and therefore, the health of future generations.


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