Cuban authorities promote action plan for protecting ozone layer

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 4 (ACN) The Ozone Technical Office (OTOZ) is promoting an action plan in view of the 30th anniversary of its constitution on September 16, coinciding with the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.

In coordination with the provincial specialists who implement the national program against this thin layer that covers the Earth from the Sun's ultraviolet radiation, the activities will be carried out throughout the year.

Helen Rodriguez, Communication specialist of the Center for Information Management and Energy Development ( CUBAENERGIA), told the Cuban News Agency that the campaign includes workshops, seminars, conferences and inventories of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment.

In addition, courses on best practices, children's contests, festivals, painting exhibitions, reforestation, environmental sanitation in coastal areas, the "16 de septiembre" soccer cup, newsletters and circles of interest, among others, with the support of the nation's institutions.

The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer has been celebrated since 1995, proclaimed a year earlier by the United Nations General Assembly to commemorate the date of the signing of the Montreal Protocol on substances that damage the ozone layer.

Cuba is a signatory of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (1985) and the Montreal Protocol (1987), related to the control and gradual elimination of the production and consumption of environmentally harmful industrial chemical products.

CUBAENERGIA is an entity belonging to the Agency of Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (Aenta), of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment.