{"id":207588,"date":"2025-09-19T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-hails-99-percent-phase-out-of-ozone-depleting-substances\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:52:00","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-hails-99-percent-phase-out-of-ozone-depleting-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-hails-99-percent-phase-out-of-ozone-depleting-substances\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia Hails 99 Percent Phase Out of Ozone Depleting Substances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Namibia has phased out nearly 99% of ozone-depleting substances, a milestone the government says demonstrates the power of global cooperation to address environmental challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking at the World Ozone Day celebrations at the University of Namibia&#8217;s main campus on Tuesday, Ministry of Environment and Tourism executive director Sikongo Haihambo described the achievement as proof that collective action works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;This achievement shows that multilateralism does work, and it gives us hope as we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509180698.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia has phased out nearly 99% of ozone-depleting substances, a milestone the government says demonstrates the power of global cooperation to address environmental challenges. Speaking at the World Ozone Day celebrations at the University of Namibia&#8217;s main campus on Tuesday, Ministry of Environment and Tourism executive director Sikongo Haihambo described the achievement as proof that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,29060,6952,4706,724,257,49486,6720,7136,254,7153,36965],"class_list":["post-207588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-depleting","tag-hails","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ozone","tag-percent","tag-phase","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-substances"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}