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Meeting with students took place on 17-18 September 2020 in Yerevan, Armavir and Ararat Regional State Colleges under the auspices of the World Ozone Day .
The events dedicated to the World Ozone Day were concluded by the meeting of the RAC Association of Armenia on 18 September 2020.
On 16 September 2020, World Ozone Day, the National Ozone Unit of the Ministry of Environment of Armenia organized a study tour for mass media representatives to the «Amberd» ozone-measuring meteorological station to introduce the staff and to demonstrate measurements of the ozone layer, the equipment and the methodology.
«EcՕzone: Fridge Waste Art» exhibition dedicated to the World Ozone Day  was launched on 16 September 2020  jointly with the Educational Center NGO «For Equal Rights»  within the framework of the «Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building» Project.
On this significant day, 16 September 2020, AST EN 378-1-2020 and AST EN 378-2-2020 adopted jointly by the National Body for Standards and Metrology and the Ministry of Environment of Armenia entered into force.
Few global agreements have produced as good as the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. Today, on World Ozone Day, we celebrate 35 years of this Convention, which was the first step towards fixing the planet's ozone layer hole.
The Train-the-trainers Course was conducted on 1-11 September 2020 at the Regional Center of Excellence for Continued Education and Certification for HVAC&R specialists .
Dear teachers, we are pleased to present you the electronic didactic materials on the preservation of the ozone layer, developed and adopted jointly by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Armenia and international partner organizations.
Phase-down of HFCs is expected to prevent the emissions of up to 105 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases, helping to avoid up to 0.5 degree Celsius of global temperature rise by 2100 while protecting the ozone layer.