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At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) talks in Bonn, Germany on Saturday (11 November), U.S. state, city and business leaders said on Saturday that they would continue to back the Paris Agreement on climate change despite President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the accord.

Canada has become the latest country to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and joined the global phase down of HFCs.

The operator of a cold storage facility in Alaska has agreed a $10,008 penalty and $26,000 in improvements after an ammonia release in 2016 seriously injured one of its workers.

The United Nations’ Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) is urging the Parties to the Paris Agreement to foster the adoption of energy-efficient technology. shecco – the publisher of this platform – reports from COP23 in Bonn, Germany.

The UK air conditioning and refrigeration industry has called on the government to remain aligned to the EU F-gas regulations and European safety standards post Brexit.

Aermec is introducing its new range of air-cooled and water-cooled R1234ze chillers at this week’s Interclima exhibition in Paris.

With the Paris Agreement in 2015, world nations agreed to keep the global temperature rise well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperate increase to below 1.5°C. Adopting natural refrigerants can help to achieve the HFC phase-down objectives enshrined in last year’s Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and thereby avoid up to 0.5°C of global warming by 2100. shecco – the publisher of this website – reports from COP23 in Bonn.

In a sign of growing interest in natural refrigerants in the Asia-Pacific, training organisations in Australia and New Zealand are seeing increased demand for natural refrigerant system training from owners, operators, and technicians in the region.

On November 3, 2017 a group of UN experts has urged placing human rights at the center of efforts directed at implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change, said the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The call came immediately before the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference opened in Bonn, Germany.

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graced a celebration to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol- a United Nations treaty to take steps to protect the ozone layer. Dignitaries and senior officials from the government, UN and private sector also attended the event, which organized by National Environment Commission (NEC).

The EU expects this year’s UN climate conference (COP23) to reaffirm once again the international community’s commitment to stepping up the global response to climate change and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Warmer than average weather conditions this year are said to account for satellite measurements showing the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer as the smallest since 1988.

While Japan remains the world leader in using CO₂-based heat pumps, hydrocarbons are gaining ground in the European heat pump market, according to a speaker from Emerson at the European Heat Pump Summit, sponsored by Chillventa.

Yokohama Reito Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s leading food distribution and cold storage companies, has installed Mayekawa’s NewTon NH₃/CO₂ packaged refrigeration system at its most technologically advanced facility.

Bacharach has introduced a CO₂ leak detection monitor, specifically designed for industrial and retail refrigeration applications.

The Institute of Refrigeration Ireland, along with Engineers Ireland, will hold a joint one-day conference on “Safe Ammonia Refrigeration” in Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday, 22 November 2017.

Despite the U.K.’s plans to exit the EU, the U.K Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has opened a “consultation phase” on introducing civil penalties for non-compliance with the EU F-Gas Regulation.

Just two months before next year’s major cut in HFC refrigerants, a survey of European retailers has revealed that 40% are not fully aware of the regulatory changes.

Safety on board with ammonia as the refrigerant. The ship classification society DNV GL (Det Norske Veritas, Germanischer Lloyd) now also certifies the BITZER screw compressors in the OS.A95 series. Models OSKA9593-K and OSKA95103-K are available, which amongst other features boast large displacement flow rates of up to 1,015 m³/h, with an integrated IQ Modul and infinite capacity control. Apart from a variety of reciprocating compressors, open and semi-hermetic screw compressors, with this, BITZER now also has the largest and newest series of screw compressors with the DNV GL certificate.

The attorney representing Mexichem in its successful legal challenge to EPA limits on the use of HFC refrigerants has denied that it will hamper ratification of the Kigali Amendment.