Horticultural grafting boosts Mexican women while saving the ozone layer

“Grafting has changed my life. Little by little, different aspects of it are improving,” says Laura Isela, a plant grafter at Rancho Los Pinos, Baja California, Mexico. Since being trained in the technique and starting work as a grafter, she has benefitted from some life-changing experiences, such as being able to pay for higher education for her children and buy her own house. 

In Oaxaca, Mexico, a green business finds a home

When old refrigerators aren’t disposed of correctly, they can emit gases that deplete the ozone layer. That’s a big problem in Mexico, where small recycling centres often don’t follow proper procedures. UNIDO has addressed this problem by training thousands of technicians, as well as by helping to open state-of-the-art recovery and recycling centres throughout the country.

UNIDO ranks the first implementing agency by the Multilateral Fund

UNIDO, beside UNEP, UNDP and the World Bank is one of the four implementing agencies of the Multilateral Fund. The main objective of the Multilateral Fund is to assist developing country parties to the Montreal Protocol to comply with the control measures of the Protocol.

The Montreal Protocol – UNIDO rises to the ozone challenge

From 6-14 September 2012, UNIDO is organizing a week-long event at its headquarters in Vienna to celebrate the success in achieving reductions that will protect the atmosphere for generations to come.

Mexico taking the lead in Latin America in phasing out ozone-depleting substances

Small recycling centres packed with worn-out household appliances - anything from broken phones to motorcycles - dot towns and villages across Mexico. It is in these mostly one-person workshops that the recycling and destruction of tons of electric appliances are handled. In most of these centres, the process is quite rudimentary: the appliances are disassembled and the parts that can be reused are recycled; then the parts that have no value are dumped in landfills where the waste can cause serious environmental problems.

Supporting Chile's farmers in phasing out ozone-depleting methyl bromide

Methyl bromide has for several decades been widely used by farmers around the world as a soil fumigant to control soil-borne diseases and pests affecting important crops... Among farmers in Chile, methyl bromide was commonly used for the fumigation and sterilization of soil for cultivating tomatoes and strawberries.

Propane persuasion: air-conditioning in China

Much of the work of UNIDO’s Montreal Protocol Division occurs in the refrigeration sector. To date, there have been more than 450 projects in 61 countries.

Croatia fully eliminates ozone-depleting substances under the Montreal Protocol

Croatia is the first country to completely abolish the use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), one of the most damaging substances to the ozone layer, with the support of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

UNIDO and the Montreal Protocol: a lasting contribution to the MDGs

St Vincent and the Grenadines: "If we can do it...."

The Montreal Protocol successfully banned the refrigerants called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which are substances that deplete the ozone layer. Unfortunately, their most common replacements, hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), are potent greenhouse gases, and can contribute to climate change, which is why those are now also on the chopping block in many climate-conscious countries, including St. Vincent and the Grenadines.