Atul Bagai and Dr Sachidananda Satpathy have received the US EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award. Atul Bagai, Regional Network Coordinator for South Asia for UNEP's Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE) Ozone Action Programme has been instrumental in helping India implement the ODS (ozone depleting substances) phase-out action plan. Mr. Bagai is currently organizing for ODS phase-out activities in 38 countries via the Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP).Dr Sachidananda Satpathy has been instrumental in helping India score an 85% reduction in CTC consumption and also implement a licensing system to control the ODS trade in India. Dr. Sachidananda Satapathy works with India's Ministry of Environment and Forests' Ozone Cell.
The awards were given on May 1st 2007 in Washington.
Sources: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=504&ArticleID=5567&l=en
http://www.epa.gov/Ozone/awards/winners_2007.html
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