Assessment of Climate and Development Benefits of Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling

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2020

B. Motherway, D. W. Fahey, G. Dreyfus, J. Christensen, N. Borgford-Parnell, N. Shah, R. Picolotti, T. Peters, Y. Xu

The global phasedown of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol will make a crucial contribution to slowing climate change and meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. An even faster phasedown could be achieved with a more extensive replacement of high-GWP HFCs with commercially available low-GWP alternatives in refrigeration and air conditioning equipment. Climate emissions also can be reduced by collecting HFCs at the end of the useful life of cooling equipment and either recycling or destroying them. Such strategies could avoid up to 0.5°C of warming by 2100.

This report is a comprehensive assessment of the climate and development benefits of efficient and climate-friendly cooling.

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B. Motherway, D. W. Fahey, G. Dreyfus, J. Christensen, N. Borgford-Parnell, N. Shah, R. Picolotti, T. Peters, Y. Xu

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