6. OzonAction Technical News Drops - Marco Buoni - Sustainable RAC technologies

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• published: 17 Feb 2016
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The governments and industry from countries, with high-ambient conditions, have raised serious concerns about the availability of alternative refrigerants that can assist them meeting the compliance targets of the Montreal Protocol, as well as leapfrogging the dependency on higher GWP options. Refrigeration and, in particular, air-conditioning is of high importance to high-ambient countries and the air-condoning sector is the major consumer of the domestic energy demand. The uncertainty about long-term and sustainable refrigerants, for high- ambient countries, has created a sense of uncertainty about policies and technologies to be considered by respective governments and industry. The government of Emirates, in cooperation with UNEP, UNIDO, AHRI and ASHRAE Falcon Chapter as well as support of several international associations, responded to this issue by organising a series of specialised events, since 2012, to address the concern of alternative refrigerants in high ambient countries. Technical forum was organised on 31 October 2015 in Dubai, UAE with particular focus on the research projects for alternative refrigerants in high ambient countries. These short videos were filmed there. UNEP and ASHRAE Falcon Chapter produced these videos for wider distribution and interviewed members of governments, industry associations, industry representatives and experts.