The International Ozone Day 2010 and Celebration of 23rd Anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol was observed throughout Bangladesh on 16 September 2010. Observance of the Day had been as elsewhere in the world with renewed expression of solidarity with the international community to create awareness on the adverse impacts of the Ozone Layer Depletion.

The Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh undertook various programmes on that Day including brought out special supplements in six National Dailies in which messages of the Honourable President, the Honourable Prime Minister, the Honourable Minister of State responsible for Ministry of Environment and Forests, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests were published.