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Energy Efficiency in the Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (RAC) Sector: Providing the Same Cooling, Using Less Energy and Living Better!
(2016)
The refrigeration and air conditioning sector represents a major share of energy use in most developing countries as refrigeration and air conditioning applications consume large amounts of electricity for cooling requirements, ...
OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 15: Substances Not Controlled Under the Montreal Protocol
(2018-04-18)
This Fact Sheet provides details of which substances are controlled under the Montreal Protocol and gives examples of related substances that are not included in these controls.
Update on New Refrigerants Designations and Safety Classifications - UNEP ASHRAE Factsheet 1
(2015)
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an update on ASHRAE standards for refrigerants and to introduce the new refrigerants that have been awarded an «R» number over the last few years and introduced into the ...
OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 16: GWPs of Refrigerant Mixtures; Kigali Context
(2018-10-24)
Many of the commonly used refrigerants are mixtures of several pure fluids. The Kigali Amendment controls the use of HFCs, including those used in refrigerant mixtures. This Fact Sheet provides details about the GWP of ...
OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 17: Refrigerant Trends in Mobile Air-Conditioning
(2018-04-18)
Mobile air-conditioning (MAC) systems used to cool the driver and passengers in land transport including cars, vans, lorries, buses, agricultural vehicles and trains. Historically all car air-conditioning used the refrigerant ...
Phase-down Strategy: Impact of Gas Choices - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 19
(2018)
In Kigali Fact Sheet 6 the development of a national HFC phase-down strategy is discussed. That Fact Sheet gives background information on the “core actions” that can be used to deliver the required cuts in HFC consumption. ...
Safe Use of HCFC Alternatives in Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning: Higher toxicity refrigerants
(2015-07-01)
As the phase out of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) progresses, it is expected that there will be a considerably higher uptake, in particular in developing countries, of ‘alternative refrigerants’, such as hydrocarbons, ...
Twinning of National Ozone Officers and Energy Policymakers
(2018)
Under the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP), UN Environment is implementing a two-year "twinning" project to build the capacity of National Ozone Officers and national energy policymakers for linking energy efficiency ...
OzonAction Series of Fact Sheets Relevant to the Kigali Amendment
(2017)
Following the adoption of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, UN Environment's OzonAction prepared a series of fact sheets describing the immediate and future challenges ...