Thirty years of healing the ozone, together
Seychelles has been part of the global ozone-protection effort since ratifying the Montreal Protocol in 1993. A retrospective on what 30+ years of cooperation has achieved.
In 2015 the Seychelles Nation marked 30 years of the Vienna Convention with a retrospective on the global effort to repair the ozone layer. Today, more than four decades on from the 1985 Vienna framework and almost forty years on from the 1987 Montreal Protocol, that effort remains the most cited success story in international environmental policy.
Seychelles ratified the Montreal Protocol on 6 January 1993 and has reported annually ever since. Under the Article 5 schedule the country has phased out CFCs, halons, methyl bromide for non-quarantine uses, and is now working through the HCFC phase-out — with the Kigali Amendment HFC phase-down beginning to bite in 2026.
What stays consistent across these phases is the local work of the Ozone Unit: issuing permits, training refrigeration technicians, running schools outreach for World Ozone Day, and enforcing against illegal trade in controlled substances.
Image credit: Seychelles Nation — see "30 years of healing the ozone together" for the original feature.
Sources: UNEP Ozone Secretariat — Montreal Protocol and Seychelles country profile; Seychelles Nation 2015 archive feature.