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Scientific Assessment of Stratospheric Ocyone 1989, United Nations Environment Program and World Meteorological Organization, New York, 1989. 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). This panel gave its official report... 

In previous lives, before his career as a restaurateur, Mr. Wong worked with Penthouse magazine, when it tried unsuccessfully to publish in China. Mr. Wong, who is Chinese-Malaysian, speaks Chinese. He has also worked at the United Nations with the World Meteorological Organization. He learned how to cook from his mother, who cooked for the workers at his father s lumberyard company on the east coast of Malaysia. 

Past global temperatures and a set of predicted temperatures from another study are shown in Fig. 3. This study was prepared by the Beijer Institute in Stockholm, based on two extensive workshops sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme... 

Shiklomanov I. A. (1997) Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater Resources of the World. United Nation Commission for Sustainable Development, World Meteorological Organization and Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, 88pp. 

WMO, World Meteorological Organization. For information Information Office, UN Secretariat Building, United Nations, New York, N. Y. 

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World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme (WMO/UNEP), Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 1998, Report No. 44, Geneva, 1999. 

Muller, R, R.J. Salawitch, P.J. Crutzen, W.A. Lahoz, G.L. Manney, and R. Tuomi, Upper stratospheric processes, in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 1998, Rep. 44, pp. 6.1-6.4, World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme (WMO/UNEP), Geneva, 1999. 

Due to the large number of topics to be addressed in the present volume, we have found it impossible to provide a complete review of the available literature. We anticipate that the interested reader will regard the discussions as a starting point and find additional references by consulting publications cited here. The periodic international assessments of the state of the ozone layer, published by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program, provide additional information. 

Only a decade earlier, just 24 countries had signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer. This treaty, however, was soon ratified by all of the significant producer and consumer nations. It came into force within only 15 months, has now been ratified by nearly 170 countries, and has entered into the annals of diplomacy as a landmark in the history of international cooperation. The heads of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) described the 1987 Montreal Protocol as one of the great international achievements of the century (Bojkov, 1995). 

WMO/UNEP. (1986). Atmospheric Ozone 1985 Assessment of Our Understanding of the Process Controlling its Present Distribution and Change. World Meteorological Organization and United Nations Environment Programme, Geneva. 

As of October 9, 2000, there were 86 states parties to the Notification Convention. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) are also Parties to the Notification Convention. 

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