USA: Two seafood processing and cold storage companies are to pay $495,000 in penalties for violations of laws relating to the management of ozone-depleting refrigerant R22. In a settlement announced yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice, Ocean Gold Seafoods Inc and Ocean Cold LLC will pay $495,000 in penalties for violations […]

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE OZONE LAYER Just over a quarter century ago, the world united to reverse the rapid depletion of the atmospheric ozone layer, which protects Earth from harmful radiation from space. Today, the ozone layer is well on track to recovery within the next few […]

Mr. Lefter Koka The impetuous urban development, to some extent chaotic, during these long years of transition has caused no little damage to the ecosystem. For a long time, we have learned to coexist with the sustainable economic growth rhetoric by staying too far away from the transformation of this rhetoric into concrete actions. The […]