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In this issue: 1. Join the UNEP-UNIDO-ASHRAE webinar on 'Alternative Refrigerants for High Ambient Temperature Countries' 2. Join the International webinar under the theme of ‘Cold Chain 4 Life’ on 26 June 2020 3. Kigali Amendment latest ratification 4. Overview for the meetings of the ozone treaties in 2020-2021 5. Forever chemicals’ are… read more

In this issue: -- Invitation to Join UNEP-UNIDO-ASHRAE Webinar on Alternative Refrigerants for High Ambient Temperature Countries -- 1. IIR and UNEP OzonAction release the French and Spanish versions of the ‘Cold Chain Technology Briefs’ 2. Lower-GWP Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Innovation Award 3. Overview for the meetings of the ozone… read more

In this issue: -- UNEP’s Statement on the COVID-19 global pandemic – 1. Ozone for life: 35 years of ozone layer protection 2. Lower-GWP Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Innovation Award 3. RAC Technician Videos - Full length films! 4. The new updated OzonAction GWP-ODP Calculator Application 5. UNEP OzonAction Encourages Everyone to… read more

In this issue: -- UNEP’s Statement on the COVID-19 global pandemic -- 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratification 2. The UNEP OzonAction WhatGas? application has been updated and improved 3. Refrigerant Cylinder Colours: What has Changed 4. Update on new refrigerants designations and safety classifications 5. Provisional agenda of the 85th meeting… read more

In this issue: -- UNEP’s Statement on the COVID-19 global pandemic -- 1. OzonAction’s iPIC system helps prevent an illegal shipment of 72 tonnes of HCFC22, 2. UNEP OzonAction Encourages Everyone to Celebrate World Refrigeration Day 2020 3. Message from the UN Environment, Ozone Secretariat on COVID-19 4. Upgrades to the Ozone Secretariat… read more

In this issue:
1. COVID-19 pandemic: Letter from James S. Curlin, Acting Head, OzonAction, to the National Ozone Officers
2. Global efforts on ozone help reverse southern jet stream damage
3. Rare ozone hole opens over Arctic — and it’s big
4. “COLD CHAIN 4 LIFE” Campaign
5. Quantifying contributions of… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratications
2. Servicing tail for HCFCs: What is it & why does it matter?
3. Customs fostering Sustainability for People, Prosperity and the Planet: A few words about the theme of the year 2020
4. Effects of ozone layer depletion on plants
5. Pesticide classication scale… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Executive Committee Primer – 2020
3. The OzonAction new iPIC platform - The Informal Prior informed consent system (iPIC) has been completely overhauled and updated
4. The ozone layer and climate protection: Customs’ essential role
5. The unexpected link… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. The OzonAction new iPIC platform - The Informal Prior informed consent system (iPIC) has been completely overhauled and updated
3. Arctic warming linked to little-studied GHGs
4. Renewed call to ban disposable cylinders
5. Japan launches Fluorocarbons… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. FACTSHEET: Proposed additional HS code sub-headings for HFCs in advance of the 2022 HS code update - Cheat Sheet
3. FACTSHEET: Dealing with seized ODS - Options for Article 5 countries
4. UNEP OzonAction Training Programme for National Ozone Officer
5.… read more

OzoNews is Turning 20!
The OzoNews 15 January 2020 issue marks 20 years of continued service of
providing a regular and concise news update directly to your screen.

In this Issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Report of the 84th meeting of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund
for… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications 2. Sound Management of Refrigerants (SI), 6.5 PDHs, and Refrigerants Literacy (SI), 4.5 PDHs 3. Reduction in surface climate change achieved by the 1987 Montreal Protocol 4. 2019 Global status report for buildings and construction 5. Maldives and Sri Lanka upgrade RAC skills through the… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Countries commit to protect the ozone layer and climate under the Montreal Protocol
3. Saving the ozone layer in 1987 slowed global warming
4. South African government and industry working together to speed up HFC phase down
5. Gambia National Environment… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications 2. Montreal Protocol talks further commitment to protect ozone layer and climate 3. Thirty years on, what is the Montreal Protocol doing to protect the ozone? 4. Twenty questions and answers about the ozone layer: 2018 update 5. Lower-GWP alternatives in stationary air conditioning: A… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications 2. Countries commit to protect the ozone layer and climate under the Montreal Protocol 3. Summary and Analysis of the 31st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP 31) 4-8 November 2019 | Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture… read more

In this issue: 1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications 2. 31st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MOP 31) 4-8 November 2019 | Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), Rome, Italy 3. 2019 Ozone hole is the smallest on record since its discovery 4. Changing… 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