Organizers: IGSD, Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares (IPEN), and the University of Sao Paolo (USP)

Description: Case Study of Energy Efficiency and Price of Room Acs in Brazil
This side event highlights the importance of requiring the room air conditioners sold in developing countries to achieve the same high efficiency demanded in developed countries and the opportunity to upgrade energy efficiency when high-GWP HFCs are phased down under the proposed Montreal Amendment. This Brazil case study documents that air conditioners sold in Brazil have far lower energy efficiency than the products sold by the same companies in developed countries. The study is original and unique because a certification lab contrasts brands for the same size AC mini splits.

For more information contact:
Irene Kim
Phone: +12023381300
E-mail: irenekim@igsd.org

Organizers: GIZ Proklima

Description: Energy Efficiency and Emission reduction – Associated complexities of assessment and incentive structures in the RAC Sector

The transition from HCFC to HFC has brought climate aspects of ODS replacement into focus under the Montreal Protocol. While discussions are ongoing in view of an HFC amendment, monitoring and measuring the climate impact becomes an essential issue under the protocol. The role of energy efficiency remains an issue that raises many questions from parties.

So far, the MP has mainly been dealing with the impact of chemical substances on ozone depletion, recognising their importance on the climate. The direct control of chemical substances either through import, export or production has been a reliable benchmark for compliance and financial incentive structures under the MP.

Controlling CO2 emissions through energy consumption is a different challenge, as numerous particularities of energy supply and demand patterns that vary largely from case to case and country to country have to be taken into account.

This side event investigates possibilities of assessing emissions in the energy and in the RAC sector in particular. It aims to identify challenges when determining project boundaries. It further illustrates complexities in the generalisation of approaches for assessment, monitoring, evaluation and promotion of energy efficiency. The discussion will include aspects of compatibility and integration of approaches, both under the UNFCCC and the MP.

Finally it will relate those findings to the overall reduction of GHG potentials in the RAC sector, including direct emissions.

For more information contact:
Julia Both
Phone: +4961749694719
E-mail: julia.both@proklima.net

Organizers: ADC3R

Description: How France avoided 45 M T Eq CO2 with the CFC,HCFC,HFC reclaim during 22 years
In France, the whole refrigerant chain has been implementing a voluntary system to organise and recover used fluorinated refrigerants for more than 22 years.
Recently, Paris Dauphine University and CITEPA carried out for ADC3R a study which demonstrates that such a voluntary approach has already avoided the emission of 45 millions TCO2 Eq.
ACD3R, a French association representing stakeholders in recovery and recycling will present this unique mechanism and its possible improvements.

For more information contact:
Marion Lazzarotto
Phone: +33663415861
E-mail: presse@adc3r.com
Linkedin: adc3r

Organizers: UNIDO

Description: Overcoming Technical Challenges: High-Moisture Dates – How UNIDO Has Harnessed Its Resources to Address Specific Hurdles
This side event will summarise the tasks and the technological challenges which UNIDO faced with respect to methyl bromide phase-out in the high-moisture date production sector and review the outcomes that have been achieved. Given UNIDO's success in promoting alternatives technologies, the event will discuss the Organization’s abilities to engage in future challenges to promote the mitigation of N2O reductions. N2O is not only the most significant ozone-depleting substance, but also considered as the “most forgotten greenhouse gas”.

For more information contact:
Castella Lorenzo, G.
Phone: +431260265036
E-mail: G.Castella@unido.org
Riccardo Savigliano
Phone: +43-1-26026-5082
E-mail: R.SAVIGLIANO@unido.org