{"id":6261,"date":"2019-10-31T08:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"new-standards-for-air-condition-and-refrigerators-set-to-tackle-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/31\/new-standards-for-air-condition-and-refrigerators-set-to-tackle-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"New Standards For Air Condition And Refrigerators Set To Tackle Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growing\ndemand for air conditioning units and refrigerators is threatening to\naccelerate global warming, but new guidelines could help reduce emissions by\nsetting clear performance standards for new appliances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nnew model guidelines for room air conditioners and refrigerators provide a&nbsp; tool for developing and emerging economies on\nlaws and policies requiring new appliances to be energy-efficient and use\nrefrigerants with a lower global warming potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If ambitious efforts in line with the guidelines are pursued throughout Africa alone, the annual impacts by 2030 would result in savings of 40 terawatt-hours of electricity\u2014equivalent to the output of almost 20 large power plants and a cost of US$3.5 billion in electricity bills\u2014and a reduction of 28 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/new-standards-air-condition-and-refrigerators-set-tackle-climate-change\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Growing demand for air conditioning units and refrigerators is threatening to accelerate global warming, but new guidelines could help reduce emissions by setting clear performance standards for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}