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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, ...
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 ...
Common Products and Equipment containing or reliant on HCFCs
(2016)
Table of common products and equipment containing or reliant on HCFCs
Technical Issues: High Ambient Temperature - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 9
(2017)
This fact sheet discusses some of the technical issues related to the operation of air-conditioning systems at high / extremely high ambient temperature
Introduction to the Kigali Amendment - OzonAction Kigali Fact Sheet 1
(2017)
An introduction and general overview of the Kigali Amendment and the changes that will come with regard to the phase-down of HFCs.
Update on New Refrigerants Designations and Safety Classifications - Fact Sheet June 2018
(2017-09-29)
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 ...
How the Montreal Protocol Protects Health
(2014-11-26)
The need to protect human health was the driving force behind the establishment of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987). ...
Ozone Depleting Potential (ODP) of Refrigerants: Which Particular Values are Used?
(2016)
Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, Article 7 of the Protocol requires all Parties, both developing countries (also called Article 5 countries) and developed countries, to provide ...