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Special release - Invitation to join the Virtual World Cold Chain Symposium 2021

Sponsors Announce Program for the Virtual World Cold Chain Symposium

The Global Food Cold Chain Council (GFCCC) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) OzonAction announce the speakers for the virtual 2021 World Cold Chain Symposium.

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The Global Food Cold Chain Council (GFCCC) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) OzonAction announce the speakers for the virtual 2021 World Cold Chain Symposium.

The Symposium theme “Promoting Sustainable Cold Chain: From Data to Action” will take place on Tuesday, 14 September 2021 from 9 to 11 AM EST. The program will be broken… read more

This note provides an overview of the vaccine cold chain in general and COVID-19 in particular, its requirements and challenges. First, the effects of temperature on these vaccines, old and new, and their storage and transport requirements should be known. Second, the temperature-controlled logistics of vaccines in general and COVID-19 vaccines… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Protecting the ozone layer also protects earth’s ability to sequester carbon
3. Under the northern lights: Mesospheric ozone layer depletion explained
4. Sustainable Refrigeration Summit - 27 September - 8 October 2021
5. Tunisia joins international… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Protecting the ozone layer also protects earth’s ability to sequester carbon
3. Under the northern lights: Mesospheric ozone layer depletion explained
4. Sustainable Refrigeration Summit - 27 September - 8 October 2021
5. Tunisia joins international effort… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification

2. Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying – IPCC

3. IPCC Includes GWPs for Hydrocarbons in New Report

4. Published evidence supports very low yields of TFA from most HFOs and HCFOs

5. Sustainable Refrigeration Summit - 27 September -… read more

In this issue:  
 
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification
2. Summary report of the 2nd Part of the 43rd Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (OEWG 43) - 14–17 July 2021 | Online
3. Ozone research managers say no room for complacency on ozone layer recovery - Systematic… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification
2. 2nd Part of the 43rd Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (OEWG 43) - 14–17 July 2021 | Online
3. New OzonAction Knowledge Maps tool
4. Nigeria Federal Government launches HCFCs phase out plan for ozone depleting… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification
2. New OzonAction Knowledge Maps tool
3. Revised contingency plan for the 2021 meetings of the ozone treaties
4. Climate change favours large seasonal loss of Arctic ozone
5. The World Customs Organisation: Amendments effective from 1 January 2022
6.… read more

The UNEP OzonAction Knowledge Maps were created to provide National Ozone Units (NOUs) and UNEP’s partners, access to data and information about relevant stakeholders involved in the implementation of the Montreal Protocol (MP) programmes/projects supported by the MP’s Multilateral Fund.

Below are the titles of the three knowledge… read more

The UNEP OzonActon Knowledge Maps were created to provide National Ozone Units (NOUs) and UNEP’s partners with access to data and information about relevant stakeholders involved in the implementation of the Montreal Protocol (MP) programs/ projects supported by the MP’s Multilateral Fund (MLF).

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification
2. World Ozone Day 2021 celebrating the Montreal Protocol that is: Keeping us, our food and vaccines cool
3. Montreal Parties agree on replenishing funds for ozone action
4. World Refrigeration Day announces theme of 2021 campaign
5. Variations in methyl… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification 2. Appointment of Ms. Meg Seki as Executive Secretary, announcement by Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director 3. Parties to the Montreal Protocol continue online discussions on the replenishment of the Multilateral Fund 4. 19th European Conference: The latest technologies in refrigeration… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification 2. Ever-evolving Montreal Protocol a model for environmental treaties 3. Climate emissions shrinking the stratosphere, scientists reveal 4. World Refrigeration Day announces theme of 2021 campaign 5. Phase Down of Hydrofluorocarbons Initiated by EPA 6. Stakeholder conference on the review… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. ASHRAE and UN Environment Programme Launch Three-Year Workplan
3. Climate crisis: 2075 could be the year the ocean starts emitting harmful gases
4. COVID-19 and how to establish a sustainable and climate resilient vaccine cold chain - New publication
5.… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. ASHRAE and UN Environment Programme Launch Three-Year Workplan
3. Report of the Eighty-fifth Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol
4. U.S.-China Joint Statement Addressing the Climate Crisis… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Convening of the 85th, 86th and 87th meetings of the Executive Committee of the
Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol (updated)
3. Fourth Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on
Replenishment: 2021… read more

This technical brief encourages Governments and National Ozone Officers to establish or amend national legislation requiring mandatory labelling of refrigerant cylinders and explains what information should be included in refrigerant cylinder labelling.

The OzonAction informal prior informed consent mechanism (iPIC) 2021 annual report provides a concise summary of the operation of iPIC queries in 2020 as well as providing a summary of data from the last decade to show the evolution of the platform and the new features of the upgraded platform. This report is intended to present iPIC’s… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification 2. Controlling trade in ozone depleting substances: iPIC breaks all records in 2020 screening 40,000 tonnes 3. Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now! Fireside chat with the authors 4. World Refrigeration Day announces theme of 2021 campaign 5. Not passing on passive cooling: How philanthropy can… read more