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UN Environment Programme OzonAction, in cooperation with the World Customs Organization and the Ozone Secretariat, is launching the fifth edition of the ECA Montreal Protocol Award for Customs and Enforcement Officers for the period 2019-2020. The award recognizes the crucial role of customs & enforcement officers in implementing trade… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications 2. Ozone hole vigilance still required 3. Ozone layer viewpoints: from observation to public protection 4. Adopt ozone and climate friendly technologies - Kenya 5. First female technician in Western Cape [South Africa] to receive training in Bavaria 6. Prohibited ODS goods still exported (… read more

In this issue:
1. New research proves Montreal Protocol successful
2. Biarritz pledge for fast action on efficient cooling
3. HFOs how much is too much?
4. HALO mission investigates ozone depletion and processes affecting our climate
5. Training workshop of national ozone officers from Western, Eastern, Northern… read more

In this issue: 
- The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, 16 September 2019
- Commemoration of World Ozone Day 2019 - Video address by Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UNEP
- World Ozone Day 2019, Letter to National Ozone Officers… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment ratifications this month
2. Environmental authorities and customs join forces against environmental crime
3. Challenges for the recovery of the ozone layer
4. Nigeria Federal Government, UNIDO to phase out 71,000 ozone chemicals
5. .Pacific Island Countries Identify… read more

In this issue: 1. World Ozone Day 2019, Letter to National Ozone Officers 2. Women in the refrigeration and air-conditioning industry: Personal experiences and achievements 3. HS Codes for HFCs - Advice for countries in advance of the 2022 HS code update 4. Update on new refrigerants designations and safety classifications - factsheet 5. Se… read more

Until the World Customs Organisation’s Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, or Harmonized System (HS) is revised in 2022, all HS codes for hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are contained in a single HS code which does not allow differentiation of the individual chemicals or of mixtures/blends. This document outlines a proactive interim… read more

Refrigeration and air-conditioning is crucial for our health, nutrition, comfort and well-being. From prevention of food wastage to preservation of vaccines, from air conditioning in hospitals to our homes, we increasingly rely on the advances that refrigeration has brought us. However, all around the world the sector has always been a largely… read more

In this issue:
1. Update on new refrigerants designations and safety classifications - factsheet
2. Why do Antarctic Ozone recovery trends vary?
3. Architecture and financing models for efficient cooling alongside the Montreal
Protocol - Discussion paper
4. The role of refrigeration in the global economy
5.… read more

In this issue: 1. Parties to the Montreal Protocol meet in Bangkok 2. Summary of the Forty-first Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 1-5 July 2019 | Bangkok, Thailand 3. Even as climate emissions push planet toward 1.5°C limit, we can still avoid up to 1°C of… read more

1. Denmark’s Inger Andersen takes over as head of UN Environment Programme
2. 41st Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal
Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (OEWG 41)
3. OzonAction Side-Event at the 41st Open-ended Working Group, Bangkok,
Thailand
4. Keeping cool in… read more

In this issue:
1. World Refrigeration Day: 26 June 2019 - Refrigerants for Life
2. Nicaragua asume compromiso ambiental y cumple protocolo de Montreal
3. Study identifies chemical blends as possible alternative refrigerants
4. Sri Lanka: ‘ahead of the curve’ in clean cooling
5. Japan tightening HFC recovery… read more

Over the last three decades, the world has realized that the safest and efficient fluorinated refrigerants that were used for decades, contribute negatively to global warming and ozone depletion and threaten life on earth. Because of this, governments and industry engaged in legal and research efforts to find alternatives in order to control… read more

This Webinar, on World Refrigeration Day (WRD), on Refrigerants for Life and how they affect modern life, intends to capture the overall global picture of policies, research,and trends of using refrigerants in different applications while presenting the role of industry, governments,and individuals in ensuring the Responsible Use of… read more

In this issue: 1. World Refrigeration Day. Get ready... Something really "cool" is coming 2. Four things you should know about sustainable cooling 3. ASHRAE launches new refrigeration webpage 4. A warming Arctic produces weather extremes in our latitudes 5. Namibia ratifies Kigali amendment to protect ozone layer 6. Botswana fights importation… read more

In this issue:
1. Upcoming Eighty-third meeting of the Executive Committee
2. 32 Years and Healing - Theme for World Ozone Day 2019
3. International action on HFCs through the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal
Protocol
4. Maritime sector urged to replace HFCs with natural refrigerants
5. Ozone monitoring team… read more

In this issue: 1. Statements by Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic, at his joint press conference with Mr Xi Jinping, President of China, Mrs Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, and Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (excerpts) 2. Weighing consumer safety versus climate action 3. ASHRAE/UNEP Lower-GWP… read more

In this issue: 1. Farewell to Shamila Nair-Bedouelle 2. Implications of constant CFC-11 concentrations for the future ozone layer 3. Helping enforcement catch up with environmental laws 4. Colossal barocaloric effects in plastic crystals 5. ASHRAE/UNEP Lower-GWP Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Innovation Award 6. Sustainability in Africa’s… read more

In this issue:
1. Post-Meeting Feedback Survey - OzonAction Second Global Inter-Regional and Parallel Network Meetings for National Ozone Officers, 17-20 February 2019
2. UN Environment fights to cut cooling and heating emissions
3. Multilateral treaties address some chemicals and issues of global concern, but implementation… read more

In this issue: 1. OzonAction second global inter-regional meeting, ‘Join the Experts’ sessions and parallel networks meetings for national ozone officers 2. Ms. Inger Andersen of Denmark - Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 3. 2018 Quadrennial Assessments by EEAP and TOCs 4. UN Environment-OzonAction Joins… read more