In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications 2. First International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 29 September 2020 3. Contingency meeting plans for 2020-2021: update 4. Climate-Friendly Cooling Can Slow Global Warming 5. How Montreal Protocol activities contribute to the Paris Agreement 6. Lower-GWP refrigeration & air conditioning innovation award - 7. Green Cooling for a better future 8. Thailand Receives Grant to Protect the Ozone Layer and Climate 9. New York Finalizes HFC-Reduction Rules, Launches HVAC Development Fund 10. K. Madhava Sarma and K. Ramalakshmi Montreal Protocol Science Champion Award 11. NatRefs Seen as Key to Reducing Emissions in Grenada 12. The European Environment Agency: Ozone-depleting substances 2020 13. The International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) contributes to the Review of EU F-gas regulation 14. ESA launches small Belgian satellite carrying VTT's remote sensing technology into space 15. Bahrain Supreme Council for Environment, UNEP sign Institutional Support Agreement 16. Iraq and UNEP sign a memorandum of understanding to train air conditioning and refrigeration technicians
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