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UNEP’s 20th Anniversary Ozone Protection Award Winners
UNEP’s 20th Anniversary Ozone Protection Award Winners
“The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was agreed upon on September 16, 1987. Since that time, there has been an enormous and highly successful global effort to eliminate ozone-depleting substances. By the end of 2005, production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances controlled by the Montreal Protocol had been reduced by over 95 percent from historic levels, and the scientific community can now detect a decrease in both atmospheric and stratospheric measurements of these chemicals. Addressing ozone depletion is expected to prevent millions of cancer cases and even more cases of cataracts. As a result of this significant action to protect the global environment, the Montreal Protocol is widely acknowledged as one of the most successful multilateral environmental agreements ever negotiated.
It is often said that success has a thousand parents – that is, wherever there is success, many people are responsible for it. In the case of the Montreal Protocol, literally hundreds of millions of people around the world can and should take credit for the success that has been achieved to date. Those people include the millions of consumers globally that have done such things as purchase a product because it displayed an “ozone-friendly” label or made sure that their air conditioning technician was using an ozone-friendly substance or refused to buy a product containing or made with ozone-depleting substances. It takes environmentally-conscious people such as these to make an international agreement effective.
It also takes thoughtful experts from governments, academia, business and civil society, who are committed to promoting, developing and implementing ideas and technologies to address the environment. It is a subset of this latter group of global champions, who have been working with missionary zeal, that are listed in this awards booklet and who the United Nations Environment Programme and the Parties to the Montreal Protocol are celebrating on the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol.
It should be understood that these awards only constitute a token recognition for the outstanding work that has been done, both by those receiving them and the hundreds of millions of unsung heroes who continue to make the Montreal Protocol a success.”
–excerpted from UNEP Publication, Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer: Celebrating 20 Years of Progress in 2007, Awards Book of the Ozone Secretariat.” Accessible at: http://ozone.unep.org/Publications/Awards-Booklet.pdf (PDF) 
(83 pp, 10.8MB, About PDF).
Montreal Protocol Visionaries Awards
Recognizing extraordinary contributions to the creation of the infrastructure of the Montreal Protocol or its Multilateral Fund.
Mr. Stephen O. Andersen has devoted a great deal of his tireless energies over the last 20 years to the Montreal Protocol and the cause of ozone layer protection. Through his work as a co-chair of the Protocol’s Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP), he has had a significant impact on the development and evolution of the Protocol and its control provisions. In addition, his works outside of Panel are legion and include the creation of ozone champions around the world and assisting countless countries and firms by demonstrating the viability of alternatives.
Ms. Eileen Claussen played a vital role, both domestically and internationally, in developing and negotiating the provisions of the Montreal Protocol and the amendments and adjustments agreed by the Protocol Parties in 1990 and 1992. Her steadfast, apolitical support for the Multilateral Fund ensured its vitality during its formative years.
Mr. Paul S. Horwitz served as the first Secretary of the Ozone Secretariat and an active delegate, president or chair at meetings of the Parties and the Executive Committee. He envisioned and negotiated several Protocol and Multilateral Fund innovations including the Protocol’s global licensing requirement and the Multilateral Fund frameworks for the closure of ozone-depleting substance producers, which ensured that Fund projects yielded net reductions in consumption. He was also responsible for the regionalization of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) OzonAction programme, which enables direct assistance to developing countries.
Outstanding Contributors Awards
Recognizing the extraordinary contributions of those who have taken the vision of the founders and advanced it to address current issues.
Mr. Tom Land has served the Protocol Parties for over a decade as co-chair of the Open-ended Working Group, president of the Implementation Committee and of the Meeting of the Parties, co-chair of the Dialogue on the Future of the Montreal Protocol and an active delegate at meetings of the Parties and of the Executive Committee. The Parties have benefited from his leadership and his work in moving the Implementation Committee toward standardization and helping develop a simpler reporting format.
Implementers Awards
Recognizing extraordinary contributions by national ozone units or individuals, whose hard work at the country level has helped to make the Protocol’s phase-out goals a reality.
Mr. John S. Hoffman was one of the earliest advocates in the United States of America for strong controls on CFCs and played a vital technical and facilitating role in early efforts to bring countries to the consensus that resulted in the adoption of the Montreal Protocol.
Ms. Drusilla Hufford has managed the ozone program of the United States for well over a decade. In that role, she has played a key part in developing the SunWise Program and the Significant New Alternatives Policy Program, the program used by many countries to facilitate the consideration of alternatives.
Mr. Stephen Seidel was instrumental in drafting the regulations that implemented the first national phase-out of CFCs used in non-essential aerosols. He also played a vital role in developing the framework that enabled a smooth phase-out of ozone-depleting substances in the United States of America.
Innovators Awards
Recognizing the extraordinary contribution of those whose work has facilitated the widespread use of alternatives or alternative technologies that enabled the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances.
United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Significant New Alternatives Policy Program has enabled a comprehensive analysis of the potential risk of alternatives, which has helped many countries make informed decisions on such substances.
Montreal Protocol Public Awareness Awards
For outstanding work in raising awareness about ozone depletion and the global effort to address it.
United States Environmental Protection Agency’s SunWise Program has developed a free health and education program for grades K to 8. The program has registered over 19,000 educators across the country to use the program, which is designed to teach children about ozone depletion and sun protection and thereby reduce children’s risk of skin cancer.
Montreal Protocol Bilateral Implementing Agency Awards
Under the terms of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, donor countries are allowed to allocate up to 20 percent of their contribution to bilateral assistance. Some donor countries have used this provision to operate sizable programmes and provide direct assistance to a large number of developing countries to meet their obligations under the Montreal Protocol.
In recognition of extraordinary assistance to developing countries in the global effort to phase out ozone-depleting substances and protect the ozone layer.
United States Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Protection Division
Technology and Economic Assessment Panel Champion Awards
The Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) has been one of the key pillars of the Montreal Protocol. The work of this body, comprised almost entirely of volunteers, has been indispensable in enabling the Protocol Parties to take informed decision on key issues of concern. While the members of the panel that are being honored here have given much to the Protocol through their work on TEAP and various TEAP task forces, virtually all of them have also contributed to ozone layer protection in other very significant ways. In recognition of extraordinary service to the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and the global effort to protect the ozone layer.
Mr. Stephen O. Andersen has been working as a co-chair of TEAP and global ozone champion since the inception of the Protocol. His leadership and prolific efforts around the globe have supported the efforts of many to achieve an early phase-out of ozone-depleting substances.
Ms. Jean Lupinacci was a founding co-chair of the Foams Technical Options Committee (1989–1995) and a member of the task force on decision XVIII/12. She is director of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Buildings Program.
Ms. Sally Rand was a member and co-chair of the Foams Technical Options Committee from 1993 to 1998 and a participant on many task force efforts. She is currently the director of the high global warming potential greenhouse gas voluntary program at the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Best 20th Anniversary Related Poster Contest Winner
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Please note: This list contains current and former U.S. EPA employees; to read a comprehensive listing of all award winners, please visit the complete UNEP Awards Book at: http://ozone.unep.org/Publications/Awards-Booklet.pdf (PDF) (83 pp, 10.8MB, About PDF).