In partnership with private sector companies, academic research as well as national and international refrigeration & air-conditioning (RAC) associations, it is the first time that the Serbian Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning and UNEP OzonAction organized the regional technology roundtable on ozone- and climate-friendly technologies for RAC experts and Ozone Officers from European & Central Asian countries. Click here to read the media briefing.
The network meeting particularly focused on:
- Enabling National Ozone Units to efficiently implement their national HCFC phase-out
management plans (HPMPs) and to meet the phase-out targets of the Montreal
Protocol
- Engaging national refrigeration & air-conditioning (RAC) associations in HPMP
implementation to help overcoming barriers to introducing ozone- and climate-friendly
technologies
The meeting took place in the context of the accelerated phase-out of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) which requires ECA network countries to freeze their HCFC consumption at the baseline level in 2013 and to achieve a 10% reduction in 2015.