Luanda – Angola is fulfilling the Montreal Protocol obligations with the constitution of the National Ozone Unit whose function is to develop and implement national programmes of progressive elimination of the substances that deplete the ozone layer.
According to the National Director of Environment and Climate Action (DNAAC), Giza Gaspar Martins, who was speaking in the opening of a workshop on the protection of the ozone layer that is taking place in the province of Cuando Cubango, country’s south-east, the National Ozone Unit has the task to promote awareness campaigns and information on the protocol and also training, plus the concretization of good practices of refrigeration and air conditioning throughout the country.
Regarding the workshop, the official said that the aim is to endow participants with skills for the assembling of rooms to support the technical professional training in good practices of refrigeration and air conditioning.
The event aims as well to train the trainers to teach the course of cold and air conditioning in the Polytechnic Institute of Environment and in the INEFOP to make the public aware of the implementation actions in the country to reach the expected results for the recovery of the eruption in the ozone layer and to sensitize the populations on the preservation of it.
The Montreal Protocol is one of the most successful environment agreements and since its adoption countries have been encouraged to be committed to the gradual elimination of the production and consumption of substances that destroy the ozone layer.
The parties to the Protocol agreed to analyze these issues while knowing that the alternatives known as hydrocarbons are potent greenhouse gases effect causers and that contribute to global warming.
The protocol was initially signed on 16 September 1987 by 46 countries.
Angola joined the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone Layer in 1998 and became part of the two instruments in 2000.
