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Children need to know about ozone depletion and its consequences because for as long as the ozone layer remains depleted, they need to protect themselves from excess UV...

This brief provides an overview of the main areas of transport refrigeration, some of the different systems used and the working fluids employed. It will go on to look at current...

Costs and Benefits for the Developing Countries of becoming Parties to Environmental Treaties

Europe and Central Asian Network of Ozone Officers' (ECA network) collective achievements to comply with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. In...

Booklet on cold chain technology brief in cold storage and refrigerated warehouses

Just as important, we need to relate all our work to people whose health, livelihoods and prosperity we are trying to safeguard. I grew up in South Africa and still remember how...

It is expected that in the near future there will be a considerably higher uptake around the world, and particularly in developing countries of ‘alternative refrigerants’, such...

Cold storage warehouses store food after production and before foods are transported and distributed to supermarkets or catering establishments. Food is stored either chilled or...

Climate change and management of hazardous chemicals and wastes are two of the many challenges facing policy and decision makers committed to meeting the Sustainable Development...

Information note on Timor Leste's activities on the occasion of World Ozone Day, 2015 and the 30th Anniversary of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

Due to the complex nature of the cold chain and the high temperature dependency of post-harvest or post-mortem deterioration in food, temperature control in the food chain is...

This book contains the stories of the hard work of the past 20 years that went into making the Montreal Protocol work. As the biggest producer and consumer of ozone depleting...

This publication, Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2014 Update, is a component of the 2014 report of the Montreal Protocol Scientific Assessment Panel,...

This report, the third biennial review of THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM, is based on the current scientific understanding of the climate system and provides a basis for the...

The present document contains key summaries from the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1994. The full assessment report will be part of the information upon which the...

This special publication covers the three interlinked issues: ozone depletion, climate change and energy efficiency, and helps show that today's world is full of interconnected...

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

This report details the available technical options that can be implemented by each foam market segment to completely eliminate CFC usage known as of 1991. Updates on the...

The Greening the Blue Report 2022: the UN system's environmental footprint and efforts to reduce it provides the UN system’s environmental impacts throughout 2021. The 2022...

The problem of ozone depletion is so interdisciplinary and complex that it is difficult for the non-expert to evaluate its urgency and severity. As a result, this potential...