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Cooling Keeps Food Fresh is a global campaign launched by The United Nations Environment Programme, OzonAction, Chefs4thePlanet, and Global Food Cold Chain Council, to celebrate World Refrigeration Day, June 26.

The campaign aims to raise awareness of cooling technologies that reduce food loss and promote climate security. Since the… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. World Refrigeration Day 2022 - UNEP & partners raise profile on cold chain with support of world-renowned chefs
3. Stockholm+50 references to ozone layer and Montreal Protocol
4. Updated OzonAction "WhatGas?" Mobile App
5. New research estimates the… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. World Refrigeration Day 2022 - UNEP & partners raise profile on cold chain with support of world-renowned chefs
3. The Antarctic ozone hole reached a maximum area of 24.8 million km² in 2021
4. The air conditioning paradox
5. Nigeria to ban ozone… read more

In this issue: 

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. World Refrigeration Day 2022 - UNEP & partners raise profile on cold chain with support of world-renowned chefs
3. A renewed rise in global HCFC-141b emissions between 2017–2021
4. How can servitisation help cool the planet?
5. Sustainable cooling:… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Lesser known ozone layer’s outsized role in planet warming-Air pollution heating up the
Southern Ocean
3. Meeting arrangements for 89th and 90th meetings of the Executive Committee
4. International contest of scholar articles
5. Liberia: EPA… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Lesser known ozone layer’s outsized role in planet warming-Air pollution heating up the
Southern Ocean
3. Meeting arrangements for 89th and 90th meetings of the Executive Committee
4. International contest of scholar articles
5. Liberia: EPA… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
3. Meeting arrangements for 89th and 90th meetings of the Executive Committee
4. Key International Associations and UN Team Up to Provide More Opportunities for Women in the Cooling Sector
5. The Green… read more

In this issue:

A tribute to Frank Pinto (written by his colleagues in UNDP)

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Meeting arrangements for 89th and 90th meetings of the Executive Committee
3. Continental-scale contributions to the global CFC-11 emission increase between 2012 and 2017
4. Financing the… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Cutting HFCs to cool the Earth
3. On the stratospheric chemistry of midlatitude wildfire smoke
4. Two additional regions of Asia were sources of banned ozone-destroying chemicals
5.  Ozone Layer Depletion and Emerging Public Health Concerns - An Update on… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Launch of the online introductory course ‘International legal framework on ozone layer protection’
3. Cooling Matters: World Refrigeration Day Announces 2022 Theme
4. Fires are driving short-term spikes in an ozone-depleting gas
5. Widely used pesticides… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Cooling Matters: World Refrigeration Day Announces 2022 Theme
3. The influence of iodine on the Antarctic stratospheric ozone hole
4. Call for nominations now open for Scientific Prizes at IIR Congress 2023
5. Women working for the Montreal Protocol and… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. UNEP Ozone Secretariat launches free teaching kits on ozone layer and environmental protection
3. Breaking down RAC Industry silos
4. Multilateral Fund Secretariat releases Executive Committee Primer – 2022
5. Science-Policy Interfaces (SPI): From Warnings… read more

In this issue:

OzoNews Turns 22!

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. The Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol New Chief Officer
3. World Refrigeration Day Announces International Stemazing Programme - Registration open until 28 January 2022
4. Trends of Studies on… read more

Special release: UNEP, IIR, and Major Associations Launch First Global Survey of Women in Cooling and Heating Sector

Paris, 15 December 2021 ‒ Refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pumps (RACHP) is a broad sector that includes the installation, commissioning, maintenance, repair, servicing and decommissioning of both domestic and… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Status of Patents and Legal Challenges: Patents Related to The use of HFO-1234yf in Auto Air Conditioning
3. 14 Nations Commit to Improving Appliance Efficiency
4. New source of potent greenhouse gas emissions identified in permafrost
5. Vanuatu ODS… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Operation DEMETER VII clamps down on illegal transboundary shipments of waste and ozone depleting substances
3. Controlling Chemical Feedstocks under the Montreal Protocol Will Protect Oceans and Atmosphere
4. The Cold Truth About HFC Phasedowns
5. More… read more

In this issue:
1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. UN issues new guidance to address warming in cities
3. Glasgow climate summit: A glass half full
4. Saving the Planet by Degrees Past and future climate benefits of the Montreal Protocol
5. World Customs Organization-HS 2022: amendments to the Harmonized… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications
2. Summary of the Combined Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (part II) and the Thirty-Third Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer: 23-29 October… read more

Special release-Invitation to join the Virtual side event-COP12(II)/MOP33 - From The Rome Declaration Commitments to Transformational Action on Delivering Sustainable Food Cold Chains for All
Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 18:00-19:30 EAT/ 17:00-18:30 CET

Hosted By: Government of Italy, FAO, Cool Coalition, Ozone Secretariat, UNEP… read more

In this issue:

1. Kigali Amendment latest ratifications

2. OzonAction and IIR Shine the Spotlight on Vaccine Cold Chain Technology

3. Why the ‘larger than usual ozone hole’ is NOT unusual

4. Healing the Ozone Layer Through Diplomacy

5. What is a planetary boundary?

6. Sustainable Refrigeration… read more