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The benefits and advantages of quick action to avoid costs and achieve target environmental results are explained in this fact sheet.

The most widely used fire protection systems (FPS) involve water based systems such as automatic sprinklers. An important category of FPS are chemical agents that can quickly...

The interaction and linkages of the Kigali Amendment with other existing policy measures is described in this fact sheet.

Under the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP), UN Environment is implementing a two-year "twinning" project to build the capacity of National Ozone Officers and national...

The WhatGas? UN Environment Programme (UNEP) OzonAction application is an information and identification tool for refrigerants gases: ozone depleting substances (ODS), HFCs and...

In Kigali Fact Sheet 6 the development of a national HFC phase-down strategy is discussed. That Fact Sheet gives background information on the “core actions” that can be used to...

Many of the commonly used refrigerants are mixtures of several pure fluids. The Kigali Amendment controls the use of HFCs, including those used in refrigerant mixtures. This...

The Montreal Protocol controls the production and consumption of a range of chemicals that damage the ozone layer (i.e. ozone depleting substances, ODS). In the Kigali Amendment...

In 2016, the Montreal Protocol was amended to phase-down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) which are commonly used alternatives to ozone depleting...

The manufacture of shoes is an important industry in Mexico—particularly in the Guanajuato region which produces each year around 244 million pairs of shoes in over 7,000...

This fact sheet gives guidance on the impact of using flammable HFC alternatives.

This fact sheet shows the four country groupings under the Kigali Amendment and provides a summary of the timetables and explains how to calculate the HFC baseline.

This fact sheet provides a list of the definition of terms and acronyms used in the Kigali Fact Sheet series as well as links to other useful information.

A look at the considerations and actions that Parties must make to come up with an optimal HFC phase-down strategy.

As the phase out of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) progresses, it is expected that there will be a considerably higher uptake, in particular in developing countries, of...

One of the important commitments of the Protocol is that of reporting the consumption and production of substances controlled under the Montreal Protocol. Following ratification...

This brochure targets the general public and explains in a simplified manner what the Montreal Protocol and its Kigali Amendment signify. It includes some actions that everybody...

Until the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, or Harmonized System (HS) is revised in 2022, all HS codes for hydrofluorocarbons...

The Assessment documents the advances in scientific understanding of ozone depletion reflecting the thinking of the many international scientific experts who have contributed to...