Intersun programme: annual meeting minutes

Overview

Mandate

At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992 it was declared under Agenda 21 that there should be activities on the effects of UV radiation. Specifically,

• to undertake as a matter of urgency, research on the effects on human health of increasing ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth’s surface as a consequence of depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer;
• and on the basis of the outcome of this research, to consider taking appropriate remedial measures to mitigate the above mentioned effects on human beings.

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