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The Moroccan Agency for Energy Efficiency and the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in developing more effective analytical methods to identify the highest efficiency room ACs available using refrigerants friendlier to climate.

At the conclusion of the 30th anniversary Meeting of the Parties of the Montreal Protocol the Parties agreed to a robust three-year replenishment to fund the continuing phase out of HCFCs, and to a separate decision to have the TEAP study how best to integrate energy efficiency with the HFC phasedown under the Kigali Amendment.

In the run up to the Montreal Protocol’s 30th anniversary Meeting next week, this afternoon Sweden became the 20th Party to deposit its instrument of ratification to the Kigali Amendment, which ensures that the amendment will enter into force 1 January 2019.

Continuing their leadership on short-lived climate pollutants, the Bonn Communique of the Climate & Clean Air Coalition released today commends the twelve countries that have ratified the Kigali Amendment and encourage all countries to welcome complementary efforts to support increased energy efficiency in cooling appliances.