Organizer: UN Environment / ASHRAE
Description: ASHRAE and UN Environment signed a cooperation agreement in 2007 aiming to achieve several environmental and technical goals within the mandate of both organizations including, but no limited to, the goals of reducing refrigerants emissions; maximizing climate benefits in selecting alternative refrigerants, building the capacities of different HVAC&R stakeholders and facilitate the transfer and adoption of suitable technologies in developing countries.
A decade of partnering between ASHRAE –UN Environment is translated in to a success story that can be easily demonstrated through the number of successful joint events and products jointly developed by both. The cooperation reached to level of maturity to be articulated strategically in the direction that can best serve the needs of developing economies in terms of complying with the Montreal Protocol while advancing refrigeration & air-conditioning technologies and practices. The recent joint work plan for 2017-2018 is structured around the theme “Working beyond Low-GWP Refrigerants” which reflects the international movement to reduce dependency on high-GWP technologies in particular with the adoption of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
This session will shed light on the joint efforts by ASHRAE and UN Environment to address needs of developing economies in relation to sound management of refrigerants through designing state-of-art tools and end products that can be used by NOUs and local stakeholders in capacity building and management programs of refrigerants.
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