It’s in the early 1950s that researchers from the University of Liège started to investigate the Earth’s atmosphere from the Jungfraujoch scientific station, in the Swiss Alps, at a time when concerns related to atmospheric composition changes were nonexistent. Since then, an infrared observational data base unique worldwide has been carefully collected. The exploitation of these observations has allowed constituting multi-decadal time series crucial for the characterization of the changes that affected our atmosphere and for the identification of their causes. In this paper, we first remind about the successive steps which led to establishing the observational program of the Liège team at the Jungfraujoch and we evoke important findings which justified its continuation. Then we present some recent results relevant to the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols, or related to the monitoring of air quality.