Climate friendly technologies promoted at MoP21 in Egypt
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This week's 21st Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol will bring together several industry initiatives confirming the timely opportunity to leapfrog climate burdening HFC refrigerants and the availability of cutting-edge non-fluorocarbon technologies to replace them.
The Montreal Protocol regulates ozone-depleting substances. It is a successful international agreement to which almost all the countries of the world have acceded. Since many ozone-depleting substances also contribute to global warming, the measures implemented under the Montreal Protocol have also helped to combat climate change. At the meeting of the Parties (MoP21) that will start later this week in Port Ghalib, Egypt, a proposal to regulate greenhouse gases, which are linked to the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances, will be discussed.
An important aspect in the negotiations is to develop green alternatives to substances that will soon be banned. For example, 1 January 2010 is a milestone in the history of the Montreal Protocol since it marks the total phase-out of hard CFCs and several other ozone-depleting substances even in developing countries. The question now is whether the Montreal Protocol will serve as a pattern to achieve an HFC phase-out too.
Green alternatives to chemical refrigerants showcased in Egypt
Conscious about the stakes that the refrigeration, heating and cooling industries are facing due to the upcoming HCFC and possibly HFC bans, several side-events will take place to highlight promising solutions.
A Japan METI booth will be on display at MoP21. Japan's cutting-edge non-fluorocarbon technologies will be introduced in an exhibit that will include live demonstrations. Targeting a wide range of industries, Japan's advanced technologies include energy saving and economical non-fluorocarbon equipment and facilities, as well as fluorocarbon recovery, recycling and decomposition devices. These are the Japanese technologies that will help to activate the world's next-generation industries.
A technology session will also be held at the MoP21 venue on the 4th November at 2pm. At the session, technical staff from Japanese manufacturers will explain the equipment on display in easy-to-understand terms. They will also introduce a variety of Japan's HFC countermeasures able to deliver on the post-Kyoto targets.
Finally, on Thursday 5 November at 9:00 am, a presentation of the campaign “THENATURALVOICE” will be held in meeting room 8 at the conference venue, in order to inform negotiators about an industry initiative promoting natural refrigerants as ideal replacements to chemical refrigerants. The 58 signatories from multinationals, suppliers, industry associations, and research institutes recall that natural refrigerants are a real opportunity to reduce global warming and call for their greater market uptake as soon as possible and wherever possible.
