‘Advanced Cooling’, launched last weekend at the Clean Energy Ministerial in San Francisco, challenges governments and businesses to develop and use efficient, smart, affordable and climate-friendly cooling technologies.
The US government and trade bodies are to fund a $5.2m research programme into the properties and the use of flammable refrigerants.
Companies have been warned that increasing fines for serious breaches of health and safety laws could lead to the closure of offending businesses.
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With the advancing worldwide phase out of HCFCs, UNEP’s OzonAction Division of Technology has produced a factsheet (in English and Russian languages) on the safe use of the new alternatives.
With the US facing restrictions on higher GWP refrigerants, ASHRAE is looking to modify its safety standard to incorporate “mildly flammable” A2L gases.
The European Commission is to refer Germany to the Court of Justice of the EU for its failure to apply the MAC Directive.
New proposals by the US EPA will see a tightening of HFC refrigerant emission, venting and sales laws.
New initiatives on reducing the consumption of HFC refrigerants are expected to save the emission of more than 1 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2025.
The standards of training and knowledge set by the European F-gas regulations are proving attractive to non-EU-member states.
A settlement has been reached in the court case between the AHRI and the US Department of Energy’s energy efficiency standards for commercial walk-in coolers and freezers.
With new US HFC refrigerant bans about to become law, industry pressure has delayed measures which could have banned R134a and R404A from the end of this year.
Refrigerant producers, refrigeration equipment manufacturers and green groups have welcomed the US EPA’s usage bans on high GWP HFCs.
The EPA has announced that low GWP alternative refrigerants R450A, R448A, R513A and R449A are to be approved for use.
The European Commission has opened a public consultation to evaluate the effectiveness of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki Moon has backed efforts to reduce HFC emissions, describing action as being essential to combat climate change.
A new EU proposal to phase-down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol could have the potential to unlock negotiations, according to a leading green group.