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Environmentally Harmful Dumping of Inefficient and Obsolete Air Conditioners in Africa
Author(s) : CLASP
Type of monograph: Report
Summary
This report presents the assessment by CLASP of the split RAC market for four regions and 10 focus countries: North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia), West Africa (Ghana and Nigeria), East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania), and Southern Africa (South Africa). As manufacturing and industrialized economies place increasingly stringent minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) and refrigerant global warming potential (GWP) limits on RACs sold domestically, importing African countries risk becoming even greater dumping grounds for inefficient, environmentally harmful products using obsolete refrigerants that no longer have a viable domestic market in their places of origin and soon worldwide.
CLASP analysed available market data collected by Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) for products sold in 2018, conducted desk research into the policy landscape in Africa, and interviewed policymakers in the region.
CLASP modelled the potential impact of four policy alternatives to demonstrate the additional GHG emissions that result from environmental dumping of RACs in Africa.
Finally, the authors suggest tools for policymakers to prevent environmental dumping of RACs.
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Environmentally Harmful Dumping of Inefficient and Obsolete Air Conditioners in Africa
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Executive summary - Environmentally Harmful Dumping of Inefficient and Obsolete Air Conditioners in Africa
Pages: 9
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Annexes: Room AC Market Profiles for Ten African Countries
Pages: 68
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Details
- Original title: Environmentally Harmful Dumping of Inefficient and Obsolete Air Conditioners in Africa
- Record ID : 30027548
- Languages: French, English
- Subject: Figures, economy, Regulation, Developing country
- Publication: CLASP - - United states
- Publication date: 2020/06/24
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Themes:
Energy efficiency, energy savings;
Comfort air conditioning;
Air conditioning: economics and statistics;
Regulations and standardization (Montreal and Kyoto Protocols…);
Economic data and statistics - Keywords: HCFC; Tunisia; Nigeria; Ghana; Ethiopia; Kenya; Tanzania; South africa; GWP; Regulations; R22; Environment; Air conditioning; Split system; Developing country; Africa; Algeria; Egypt; Morocco; Energy efficiency
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