NDC4 Webinars
Accelerating climate action with cooling sector-related NDCs
The NDC4 webinar series shines light on the importance and potential of the cooling sector for more ambitious and enhanced NDCs and disseminates holistic mitigation approaches.

Cooling sector specific mitigation targets and measures can significantly contribute to achieving a country’s overall climate targets and therefore, need to be considered when defining and updating Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The global project Cool Contributions fighting Climate Change ll (C4 II (opens in a new window)) launches a webinar series to illustrate tools, methods and best practice examples for designing and implementing more ambitious NDCs in the cooling sector.
Upcoming Webinars
Our next webinar will be announced here soon.
Previous events:
Webinar #4: Cool MRV: Combining emissions reporting with enforcement of standards and labelling for cooling products in Latin America and the Caribbeans (04 August 2023, 14:00 – 15:00 UTC, Spanish)
When it comes to climate action in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector, effective measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions is crucial and required under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as well as advisable under the Montreal Protocol (MP) and its Kigali Amendment. An MRV system forms the basis for developing and implementing effective mitigation strategies for the cooling sector. The challenge: data collection is often not systematic and the MRV approach is not clear.
This webinar provided an overview on how an effective MRV system for the cooling sector can look like and will demonstrate United For Efficiency’s (U4E) activities on Product Registration Systems to enforce standards and labels for cooling products and will also present a free of charge prototype.
Moderation: Adolfo Cordoba Rodriguez, GIZ Proklima
Time (UTC) | Topic | Speaker |
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14:00-14:05 | Opening Remarks | GIZ Proklima |
14:05-14:25 | NDCs, National Inventories and the Montreal Protocol: Understanding MRV in the cooling sector | Irene Papst & Martin Brown-Santirso, HEAT GmbH |
14:25-14:40 | Importance of Product Registration Systems and U4E prototype for application in countries | Madeleine Edl & Miquel Pitarch,U4E |
14:40-15:00 | Questions & Answers | All participants |
Webinar #3: Combining emissions reporting with enforcement of energy standards and labelling for cooling products (11 May 2023, 9:30-10:30 CEST)
When it comes to climate action in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector, effective measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions is crucial and required under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as well as under the Montreal Protocol (MP) and its Kigali Amendment
Emissions from the refrigeration sector are made up of two parts: 1/3 are direct emissions from the use of refrigerants. 2/3 are indirect emissions resulting from the energy consumption of the products. Both direct and indirect emissions can be drastically reduced by switching to natural refrigerants and increasing energy efficiency, and the corresponding reductions can be accounted for in a country's NDC. An MRV system forms the basis for developing and implementing effective mitigation strategies. The challenge: data collection is often not systematic and the MRV approach is not clear.
This webinar provided an overview on how an effective MRV system for the cooling sector can look like and demonstrated how the Philippines combines emissions reporting with the enforcement of energy standards and labelling for cooling productsas part of their Energy Labeling Program (PELP).
Agenda:
Topic | Speaker |
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Welcome Remarks | GIZ Proklima |
NDCs, National Inventories and the Montreal Protocol: Understanding MRV in the cooling sector | Irene Papst, Heat GmbH |
Philippine Energy Labeling Program (PELP) | Aaron Premacio, Energy Performance Regulation and Enforcement Division, Energy Utilization and Management Bureau Philippines |
Making use of product registration databases for RAC MRV | Maraida Licerio, GIZ Proklima |
Questions & Answers | All participants |
Webinar #2: Benchmarking the level of ambition of cooling sector-related measures included in NDCs (13 December 2022, 2-3 pm CET)
The second webinar introduced the benchmarking tool developed together with the guideline Raising ambition in NDCs through holistic mitigation approaches in the cooling sector – Guidance for policymakers (opens in a new window). The guideline intends to provide political decision makers with a step-by-step guidance on how to integrate and appropriately cover the cooling sector in an NDC. This is complemented by benchmarking tool that aims at enabling decision-makers to do a self-analysis on the level of ambition of cooling sector-related measures included in the current or future updated NDCs.
Agenda:
Topic | Speaker |
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Welcome Remarks | Philipp Denzinger, GIZ Proklima |
Overview of the objective and approach of the NDC guidelines | Daniela Laßmann, Perspectives Climate Group |
Presentation of the benchmarking tool for cooling-sector related NDCs | Irene Papst, HEAT GmbH |
Questions & Answers | All participants |
Webinar #1: NDC4 Call for Proposals: Raising ambition in NDCs with Green Cooling (22 November 2022, 2-3 pm CET)
The first webinar did provide guidance on how to apply for the NDC4 Call for Proposals (opens in a new window) which provides technical advisory to ambitious countries in the application of best practices for NDC strategy development in the cooling sector. Examples presented by the project coordinators were used to illustrate what the activities can look like in practice. In the following you find all information presented to the audience.
Agenda:
Topic | Speaker |
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Welcome Remarks | GIZ Proklima |
Overview of current status and activities of C4 II | GIZ Proklima |
NDC4 Call for Proposals: • Application procedure • Examples of possible activities that can be supported | Irene Papst, HEAT GmbH |
Questions & Answers | All participants |
Contact
In case of any questions, please contact: ndc4@giz.de
About the project
The global project Cool Contributions fighting Climate Change ll (C4 II) is funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) under the International Climate Initiative (IKI).