The invisible elephant in the climate change room!

THE INVISIBLE ELEPHANT IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE ROOM!

Important climate change information for major users of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) equipment

The blockchain R&D work was triggered by the MOU between SmartTrade and Climate Control Companies Association of New Zealand (CCCANZ) to research emerging technologies that have the potential to benefit the HVAC&R industry and is now supported by the industry organisations that collectively represent the bulk of our industry.

In October 2019, the government announced it was going to regulate six priority waste products for which the relevant industry would have to implement a Priority Waste Product Scheme. F-gases are one of the six priority waste products.

There is an existing voluntary stewardship scheme calling itself “Recovery”, it only addresses refrigerant end-of-life recovery and destruction historically achieving an estimated 5% recovery rate

The industry organisations collectively represent the bulk of the HVAC&R industry, and we believe the current scheme fails the government’s expectation that the product stewardship is end-to-end. To that end we are now making our own Product Stewardship Scheme (PSS) application.

The industry PSS is the only scheme that is supported by industry, that is designed as a true end-to-end solution and has been developed with industry experts.

Most if not all major businesses will either already have or will be implementing carbon reduction strategies in response to the rapidly increasing demand by society for solutions to be found to the climate change challenge. The HVAC&R industry needs your support if we are to successfully mitigate the global warming impact of F-gases and other refrigerants.

New Zealand businesses should get behind this world leading global warming mitigation strategy. We see this as an opportunity for your business to add to its credentials in the fight to mitigate global warming.

Read the full article in the Industry Journal, November 2022 issue.