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COPA primarily supports countries from the Global South eligible for Official Development Assistance in creating effective greenhouse gas mitigation through ozone depleting substances (ODS) and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) banks management. Partner countries receive access to technical and financial support to establish and further develop a regulatory framework and infrastructure to effectively address the global ODS and HFC banks problem.

Countries are welcome to become members of the alliance and benefit from knowledge exchange and an international network of actors willing to jointly work on the sustainable management of ODS and HFCs. 

In the initial phase, COPA cooperates with China (Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China - Foreign Environmental Cooperation Office), Ghana (Ministry of Environment Science Technology and Innovation - Environmental Protection Agency), Mexico (Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico), Tunisia (Ministry of Environment of Tunisia) and Ecuador (Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries). COPA is working with the five countries to define country-specific commitments, develop project concepts and implement first pilot actions. The results and expertise can then be transferred and multiplied to other countries.

COPA focuses on mitigation actions in metropolitan regions as ODS and HFC waste stocks mostly accumulate in densely populated areas.

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Tunisia

Tunisia

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The management of ODS banks in Tunisia is in its early steps. The first approach on this area of work has been conducting an inventory of the stock of ODS (GIZ 2015). It identified that in Tunisia, the total ODS banks have 2,386 tons covering individual climatization, domestic refrigeration, commercial, industrial and centralized cooling. Based on the inventories of refrigerant stocks in Tunisia (ANPE / GIZ 2018), the quantities of ODS potentially as well as those realistically available for management have been identified. To define the quantities of ODS potentially available for management, it was considered that all refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) equipment shut down at the end of its life cycle would enter the waste stream (assuming a collection rate of 100%).

Approximately 54 tons of HCFC-22 are potentially available for management (recycling / recovery) per year, while 13 tons of CFC-12 could be destroyed per year, assuming 100% recovery of these substances. However, the possibility of taking action to destroy CFCs is rapidly diminishing.

Tunisia has a regulatory framework that covers hazardous waste (HW) established by Decree No. 2000-2339. Currently, the decree only includes CFCs and equipment containing this type of ODS. An update of the list of hazardous waste in Tunisia is currently underway, which will allow to complete the decree by classifying all substances that deplete the ozone layer and substances with global warming potential in the refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) sector as HWs requiring special treatment.

Tunisia has already taken steps to install a RRR (recovery, recycling and regeneration) program for refrigerants. The aim of the RRR program is to reduce the import of ODS and fluorinated gases, the prices of which have risen considerably and will continue to rise in the future as a result of increasing restrictions on their use. Tunisia has two centers for the recovery of refrigerants in Tunis and Sfax equipped.

Activities

Tunisian policymakers will be trained and equipped in adopting ODS banks management practices

 

  • Support the design and improvement of national legislation that requires the collection and/or destruction of ODS, bans ODS venting, and puts in place proper procedures for servicing and end-of-life recovery of ODS containing equipment

 

  • Propose an institutional arrangement that allows qualified state bodies the management and destruction of ODS

 

  • Capacity Building to achieve a gradual increase in the practices of collection, storage, recycling, and destruction of refrigerant gases during charging, maintenance, repair and recovery of gases at the end of the life of refrigeration equipment and air conditioning

 

  • Development of a national roadmap with the identification of the potential destruction technologies for management of ODS banks in Tunisia.

*These activities were determined in COPAs project document. Due to the Decision 91/66 of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol to establish a funding window for an inventory of banks of used or unwanted controlled substances and a plan for the collection, transport and disposal of such substances, minor changes on the activities will be done.

 

UNDP is willing to support the partners to strengthen their systems for the reduction of ODS and HFCs banks emissions.

Xiaofang Zhou, Director at UNDP's Montreal Protocol Unit