My opinion is that International ozone day is an admirable effort to promote a worthy cause. Who can be against clean air and a protected Ozone layer?

First of all, the purpose of the day is to promote efforts to preserve the ozone, not pay homage to the ozone for protecting us.

The efforts seems to originate from the United Nations, which actually has an "Ozone Secretariat" as part of it's Environment Programme. The theme for 2009 is "Universal participation: Ozone protection unifies the world", with activities planned in India, Pakistan and Columbia.

International Ozone Day has it's own Facebook, with a motto of "Save the Ozone Layer~Save our children".

http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Ozone-Day/78680969320?ref=mf

Ozone Day was established on September 16th because that was the signing date of the Montreal Protocol, a landmark international agreement on how to prevent depletion of the Ozone.
Source(s):
http://ozone.unep.org/Events/7C_ozone_day_home.shtml
http://www.ozonedepletion.co.uk/about-ozone-day.html
http://www.ciesin.org/TG/PI/POLICY/montpro.html
http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Ozone-Day/78680969320?ref=mf

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