Date: 14 June 2022 Time: 11:30 – 13:00 CEST Room: Berlin
Description of the event
As the planet warms the need for sustainable cooling for all is growing. The 2016 Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol manages the global phase-down of potent climate-warming hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), but alone even full global compliance with the Kigali phase-down will not be sufficient to reduce HFC emissions to levels called for in IPCC 1.5 oC consistent scenarios. This event will present new scientific findings on the scale of additional ambition needed to reduce HFC emissions and showcase examples of how countries are already taking action to manage these powerful climate-forcing refrigerants while simultaneously enhancing energy efficiency and food security and other development objectives.
The event will be livestreamed on the UNFCCC Official YouTube Channel
Run of Show
Opening (10 minutes)
- Nathan Borgford-Parnell, Climate and Clean Air Coalition
Panel (65 minutes)
| 15 mins | Pallav Purohit, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
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Achieving Paris climate goals call for increasing ambition of the Kigali Amendment |
| 15 mins | Naomi Inoue/Makoto Kato (TBD)
Ministry of the Environment, Japan/Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center (OECC), Japan |
Life cycle Management of Fluorocarbons
Japan’s cooperation activities under the IFL such as Joint Crediting Mechanism Good practices from the Resource Book on Life Cycle Management of Fluorocarbons
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| 10 mins | Dr. Hak Mao, Director of Department of Climate Change, General Directorate of Policy and Strategy, the Ministry of Environment, Cambodia
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Cambodia’s experience developing a National Cooling Plan as a cross ministry effort led by MoE contributing to both goals of the NDC and Kigali Amendment |
| 10 mins | Pham Van Tan, Deputy Director General for Climate Change, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Viet Nam
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Viet Nam’s experience integrating cooling and refrigerants in the National Climate Change Strategy |
| 10 mins | Representative from Rwanda (TBC) | Example of reducing HFCs while improving efficiency and reducing food loss in the cold food chain
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Q&A (20 mins)
- Moderated by Nathan Borgford-Parnell, Climate and Clean Air Coalition
Organizers
CCAC, IIASA, Japan, UNEP Cool Coalition