Title: Opportunities to Supply Superior Technology in Markets to Combat/Prevent Inefficient Cooling Appliances Using Obsolete Refrigerants
Description: This side event will explore shared importer and exporting Party responsibility to find solutions to stop the dumping of inefficient cooling equipment containing obsolete refrigerants. The presentations will reflect on how the European F-gas Rule and United States HFC regulations implementing the Kigali Amendment embrace shared responsibility and how the Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund (MLF) can be successful in spending the full 2024-2027 Replenishment of almost one billion US dollars to avoid climate tipping points. In addition, presentations at this Side Event will describe the business opportunity for enterprises selling superior replacements for ODSs and HFCs.
Contact:
Denise San Valentin
denise.sanvalentin@un.org
Title: Opportunities for Alternative Cooling Technologies in the HFC Transition
Description: Alternative Cooling Technologies, or ACTs, refer to replacements for fluorinated-gas-based cooling that require no use of controlled substances. These range from natural refrigerants and passive cooling approaches to emerging non-vapor-compression methods. This side event will explore why rapid development and deployment of a broad portfolio of ACTs is critical to meeting and raising the ambition of the HFC transition, and Montreal Protocol Parties can support such efforts.
In particular, this side event will address the following questions:
Tilden Chao
tilden.chao@cclab.org
Title: Controlling Industrial Emissions of Nitrous Oxide (N2O) under the Montreal Protocol
Description: Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the most significant ozone-depleting substance in the world today and is projected to remain so throughout the 21st century. It is also the third most important greenhouse gas. Yet this super-pollutant – which was listed under the Vienna Convention and included in the Kyoto Protocol’s basket of greenhouse gases – is not currently subject to any controls under the Montreal Protocol, nor to any significant mitigation efforts under countries’ nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
Emissions of N2O from industrial sources (including adipic and nitric acid production, and the energy sector) account for around 372 million CO2-equivalent tonnes every year, roughly 14% of the anthropogenic total. The Montreal Protocol, with its successful track record in tackling ozone and climate threats from industrial sources, and its celebrated history of increasing ambition, is singularly well-placed to address the ongoing and unnecessary harm caused by industrial emissions of N2O. In this side event, the challenge posed by industrial N2O emissions, and the opportunities to control them under the Montreal Protocol, will be explored in detail.
Tom Nickson
tomnickson@eia-international.org
