Kofi A. Agyarko, Director, Renewable Energy,

Transcript:Kofi A. Agyarko, Director, Renewable Energy,:
Kofi A. Agyarko, Director, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency & Climate Change Issue of import inefficient cooling equipment with obsolete HFC and High-GWP HFC refrigerant! MOP35, Nairobi 23 October 2023 The Ugly Face of Dumping NEW APPLIANCES! Why new inefficient appliances with obsolete refrigerants dumped in Africa wasting precious money on electricity and service with air pollution and climate change from greenhouse gas and toxic fossil fuel emissions? How can global companies and their home countries hope to be respected when they exploit export markets with products they would not sell to their own citizens? Why not global cooperation to stop shipping of products so easily identified as damaging to local prosperity and global environment? Please work with Africa to end this dumping madness! 3 Environmentally Harmful Dumping of Inefficient and Obsolete Air Conditioners in Africa African AC markets dominated by low-efficiency equipment using obsolete refrigerants Used and defective products are exported from the European Union and Asia to Africa Origins of low efficiency RACs sold in 10 African countries (N=651,273). Source: CLASP/IGSD, Environmentally Harmful Dumping of Inefficient and Obsolete Air Conditioners in Africa (2020). 4 The Harmful Effects of Environmental Dumping Triggers the poverty spiral – keeps users in perpetual poverty because of high running cost. Increasing dependence on obsolete refrigerants that increasingly becoming expensive and unavailable Flooding the market with poor quality equipment chases away quality products – “market for lemons” stresses the grid, transformer overloads resulting in black outs and brown outs Increases non-recyclable refuse Hampers efforts to meet international obligations. 5 Africa is leading efforts to raise awareness of, identify solutions, call partners to action, and stop environmental dumping 6 First energy efficiency decision adopted immediately after the Kigali Amendment was agreed (introduced by Rwanda & Morocco), sought to implement anti-dumping measures (Oct. 2016) At the side event Stopping Environmental Dumping at the 30th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (Nov. 2018), Rwanda drew attention to the problems caused by the dumping of obsolete and inefficient equipment in African markets, which undermined climate efforts by African countries. Anti-dumping included in African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) Decision 17/1 (Nov. 2019) (among other Decisions) At the side event Stop Environmental Dumping: Latest Analysis and Tools at the Combined 12th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention and 32nd Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (Nov. 2020), Ghana presented its