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Bangkok, Thailand, 1 November 2024 – The 36th Meeting of the Parties (MOP36) to the Montreal Protocol brought together nations worldwide to address critical environmental challenges. At the heart of this gathering, UNEP OzonAction hosted a captivating exhibition highlighting the significance of international collaboration in protecting the ozone layer and fostering sustainable cooling.

UNEP Executive Director's speech at the 91st Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol, Montreal Canada, 5-9 December 2022Mr. Hassan Ali Mubarak, Chair of the Executive Committee, Mr. John Thompson, Vice-Chair, distinguished members of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund, Colleagues from implementing agencies and other organizations,

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 6 October 2022 ‒ National Ozone Officers (NOOs) in the South-Asia (SA) and Southeast Asia (SEA) Networks met from 3-5 October 2022 in Chiang Mai, Thailand to do some forward thinking about the sustainability of Montreal Protocol implementation.

1 August 2022, Chongqing, China ‒ The 11th Ozone2Climate (O2C) Technology Roadshow and Industry Roundtable was jointly organized by the Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China(FECO/MEE) and the China Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Industry Association (CRAA), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), as part of the 33rd International Exhibition for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Heating and Ventilation, Frozen Food Processing, Packaging and Storage (CRH 2022), one

Damascus, Syria, 31 January 2022 ‒ The UNEP OzonAction Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) in West Asia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment of the Syrian Arab Republic, organized a physical workshop in Damascus on 18 January to present the outcomes of the Kigali Enabling Activities project that was completed in 2021, to initiate the preparation of the national Kigali Implementation Plan (KIP) to phase down  Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and to launch the implementation of the Hydroc