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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

In this issue: 1. Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2018: Full Report Now Available 2. Study provides more evidence of the recovering Antarctic ozone hole 3. ASHRAE/UNEP Lower-GWP Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Innovation Award 4. Women in science for ozone protection 5. Rwanda’s ambitious plan for clean and efficient cooling 6.… read more

In this issue: 1. ASHRAE & UNEP-OzonAction launch new joint workplan promoting management of refrigerants in developing economies 2. Dumping of obsolete air conditioners undermines development and climate goals 3. Uncovering the Ozone Hole - Podcast 4. Gov't to get tough on HFC refrigerant violations (Japan) 5. Flammable Refrigerants Safety… read more

In this issue: 1) World takes a stand against powerful greenhouse gases with implementation of Kigali Amendment, 2) Report of the eighty-second meeting of the Executive Committee, 3) Global agreement addressing ozone depletion will also bring large climate benefits, 4) Rwanda launches centre to measure global warming gases, 5) Morocco… read more

In this issue: 1. Special End of Year Message, Tina Birmpili, Executive Secretary, Ozone Secretariat, "The Kigali Amendment: A New Year’s resolution we cannot break" 2. Buildings and construction sector – Huge untapped potential for emission reductions 3. Ozone depletion increases Antarctic snowfall, partially mitigates ice sheet loss 4. How… read more

In this issue: 1. Emergence of ozone recovery evidenced by reduction in the occurrence of Antarctic ozone loss saturation 2. Advancing nationally determined contributions (NDCs) through climate-friendly refrigeration and air conditioning: Guidance for policymakers 3. Conclusions of the "Technical report on energy efficiency in HFC-free… read more

In this issue: 1. Montreal Protocol closes annual meeting with new mandates, strengthened enforcement and momentum for climate action 2. Summary of the Thirtieth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol: 5-9 November 2018 3. Montreal Protocol assessment reveals healing ozone, untapped potential for climate action 4. Highlights Scientific… read more

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In this issue: 1. NEW OzonAction smartphone application: Good Servicing: Flammable Refrigerants Quick Guide 2. NEW OzonAction smartphone application: Refrigerant Identifier Video Series 3. National Ozone and Customs Officers in SADC region hold twinning workshop and Border Dialogues (South Africa) 4. South Asia and South-East Asia Ozone and… read more

In this issue: 1. Little-noticed treaty could help delay climate catastrophe 2. $45 Billion commercial refrigeration equipment market - Global forecast to 2023 3. Find out about 2018 World Ozone Day Country Activities 4. Germany supports Ghana to phase out outmoded air-conditioners 5. Pacific Islands cooperate on energy-efficient cooling under… read more

1. UN Secretary General message for the International Ozone Day 2018 2. UN Environment Executive director message for the International Ozone Day 2018 3. Let's carry on to achieve collectively our common goal: restoring the ozone layer 4. The International Ozone Commission, on the 31st anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, reports signs of… read more

1. 49 countries signed the Kigali Amendment to date 2. Find out about World Ozone Day country activities 3. Coordinating finance for sustainable refrigeration and air conditioning 4. Recent Southern Ocean warming and freshening driven by greenhouse gas emissions and ozone depletion 5. A photovoltaic system powers the refrigeration systems of a… read more

1. Let's carry on to achieve collectively our common goal: restoring the ozone layer 2. Women in the Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Sector - Call for stories 3. How to make air conditioning more sustainable 4. The cost of cool 5. Development of geothermal heat pumps by using environment friendly refrigerants 6. Methyl-Substituted a-… read more

1. Women in the Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Sector - Call for stories - Deadline extension to 6 September 2018 2. PODCAST: The Inside Story of How the World Closed the Hole in the Ozone Layer 3. How to prevent cooling from warming up the world 4. The 2018 Davy Medal is awarded to Professor John Pyle FRS 5. Rwanda’s new cool endeavour 6.… read more

1. Women in the Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Sector - Call for stories 2. Summary of the 40th Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer: 9-14 July 2018 3. Parties to Montreal Protocol take up urgent response to CFC-11 emissions 4. 2nd International… read more