Kenya to promote awareness campaign on ozone layer depletion

NAIROBI, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Kenya on Monday pledged to scale up an awareness campaign on the devastating impacts of ozone layer depletion.

Aden Duale, cabinet secretary for the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, said the campaign will provide an opportunity to further educate the public on the health and ecological impacts of depleting the ozone layer, a part of the earth's atmosphere that absorbs the bulk of the sun's ultraviolet radiation.