Advancing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through Climate-Friendly

The document outlines how aligning the UNFCCC and Montreal Protocol regimes can help the refrigeration, air conditioning and foam (RAC&F) sector contribute to the Paris Agreement's temperature targets. It highlights that rising demand for cooling, driven by urbanization and population growth, increases CO2 and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) emissions. The guide emphasizes the importance of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which aims to phase down HFCs to avoid significant temperature increases.

• The refrigeration, air conditioning and foam (RAC&F) sector contributes to greenhouse gas emissions through electricity consumption and the use of blowing agents and refrigerants with high global warming potential (GWP), specifically HFCs which can have GWPs up to 4000 CO2eq.
• The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, agreed upon in October 2016, mandates a phase-down of HFC emissions over thirty years and is estimated to prevent nearly 90% of the temperature rise that HFCs would have otherwise caused.
• To meet the Paris Agreement targets of holding global temperature increases well below 2°C or limiting them to 1.5°C, policymakers are encouraged to align efforts between the UNFCCC and the Montreal Protocol within their national mitigation strategies.

APA

NewClimate Institute (2016). Advancing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through Climate-Friendly. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/advancing-nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs-through-climate-friendly

Chicago

NewClimate Institute. Advancing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through Climate-Friendly. 2016. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/advancing-nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs-through-climate-friendly.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{newclimateinstitute2016advancing, author = {{NewClimate Institute}}, title = {{Advancing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) through Climate-Friendly}}, institution = {NewClimate Institute}, year = {2016}, month = nov, url = {http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/advancing-nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs-through-climate-friendly}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }