Refrigerants like HCFCs, HFCs and HFOs have been added to the Environmental Investigation Agency’s Global Environmental Crime Tracker, which details smuggling and trafficking hotspots.
Stricter GWP limits, product bans and compensation for environmental damage are a few of the amendments suggested by some of the continent’s leading manufacturers of natural-refrigerant-based systems.
Andreas Meier described the German OEM’s transition from f-gas to mostly CO2 systems at the ATMO World Summit.
But European Environmental Bureau contends that the proposal falls short by allowing f-gases in applications where natural refrigerants are available.
The transcritical CO2 market in Europe reached 40,000 installations this year, and is expected to grow quickly, said ATMOsphere’s Ilana Koegelenberg.
Bente Tranholm Schwarz says f-gas industry has to help Europe achieve climate targets.
Green Cooling Summit panelists pull no punches about urgency of replacing f-gases with NatRefs.
The hybrid event, scheduled for September 28-29, will address a wide range of natural refrigerant-related topics.
Ammonia remains at the heart of food refrigeration despite recent uptake of CO2 technologies, heard participants in a Eurammon symposium last month.
Former EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard – the driving force behind the EU’s F-Gas Regulation – has been elected to the Danfoss board. With natural refrigerants well placed to benefit from the HFC phase-down, the appointment follows the unveiling by the Danish company of a number of new climate-friendly HVAC&R technologies.
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