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EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
attention during the registration and the
tea breaks.
Mark Gordon of the DEA, in his
opening address, paid tribute to the
outcomes of the MP. “In celebrating The use of low-GWP refrigerants, skills
training to avoid refrigerant loss, import
controls, data collection by weather
services, compliance with safety
standards, recovery, recycling, and African HPMP project, leading to some
recommendations on the way forward to
ensure a successful phase out of HCFCs and
the management of HFCs in South Africa.
So what now? stakeholders meeting scheduled to take
place in the first week of December
2018. Stakeholders will be constantly
updated of any change to this effect.
The department will also extend
its 30th anniversary, the Protocol can
rightly acclaim to have averted an
environmental catastrophe.”
Delegates were close to 100 from
a wide cross section of contractors,
suppliers, government departments, and
food producers. What was particularly
noticeable was the absence of the
supermarket sector.
The report backs of the three
breakaway commissions after the lunch
break stimulated food for thought as the
industry prepares for the phase down
of HFCs under the Kigali Amendment.
The DEA was confident that South Africa
would satisfy the Kigali Amendment
to the MP and would follow the
international phase down of HFCs.
Climate change is a global issue. The
HVAC&R sector has an important role to
play in the race against global warming. the international supply of synthetic
refrigerants, were some of the issues
addressed at the HPMP roadshow and
brought to the fore the complexity of the
challenges facing the HVAC&R sector. The DEA has put together the
following ‘game plan’… Step one is
developing a work programme on the
activities raised at the roadshows, with
corresponding milestones. The activities
will include: progress on ratification
of the Kigali Amendment; HFC phase
down and management (including the
development of regulations thereon);
capacity building in the HVAC&R sector
(especially servicing technicians); phase
out of refrigerant disposa cans; update
on refrigerant reclamation project; and
compliance monitoring issues.
The work programme will be consulted
upon with role players at regular
quarterly stakeholder meetings at the
DEA and shall be circulated for further
inputs/comments by 30 September 2018.
The work programme will then be
adopted by stakeholders in the following invitation to these stakeholder
engagements to other role players that
came through during the roadshows. CLA
GOING FORWARD
The roadshow was but one element of a
campaign to draw awareness to South
Africa’s management plan to phase out
synthetic refrigerants with high global
warming potential, as it will impact on all
of its citizens.
There is still a lot of work to be done. But
in the end, the HPMP roadshow organised
by the DEA and UNIDO as implementation
partners was a success, according to the
organisers. The objectives of the roadshow
were achieved, and the roadshow
provided a platform for robust discussions
between all stakeholders in the South
Documents in relation to the
roadshow can be found at
http://sawic.environment.gov.za/.
ATTENDANCE NUMBERS
Midrand: 152
Durban: 122
Port Elizabeth:
Cape Town:
44
101
Cape Town
Some of the speakers, from left: Amalia Nangolo (Namibia NOU); Noluzuko Gwayi (DEA); Natasha Kochova
(UNIDO); Milan Demko (UNIDO); Margaret Molefe (DEA); and Mark Gordon (DEA).
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