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Get the latest from the Cool-Safe team and keep up to date with our mission to reduce the harm from synthetic refrigerants.
Thank you to all of you who shared your feedback with us in our recent (and inaugural) Cool-Safe Annual Survey. Your feedback is helping us to understand what's working well, what's not and what we need to do differently.
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Radio New Zealand has reported scientists are calling for urgent greenhouse gas emission reductions following dramatic Antarctic sea ice loss.
Aotearoa New Zealand has met its 2020 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a combination of carbon removals from forestry and international offsets.
The Government has approved regulations that will improve the quality and availability of waste data. The information collected will help them shape future waste reduction policies.
Work is underway by the Ministry for the Environment to develop a carbon removals strategy. The strategy will guide decisions about how we, as a nation, build a more diverse portfolio of activities that remove carbon dioxide from the air and oceans.
Following consultation feedback, the Ministry for the Environment is deferring its proposal to prohibit the import and sale of equipment pre-charged with hydrofluorocarbons.
This August has seen over $100,000 worth of bounty purchase orders given back to businesses for their recovered refrigerant - that's a record month since our Bounty Buy-Back Programmes launched in October last year!
On Tuesday 26 September EECA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority) is hosting an applicant briefing webinar to talk about how GIDI: Commercial Buildings works, and provide more information on criteria.
The first 'virtual meeting' of the industry working group helping to develop a new recruitment approach and campaign met recently - and there were lots of great ideas for how we can attract more refrigerant superstars into this awesome industry!
As Cool-Safe, we're aiming high with our numbers. Right up into the atmosphere. We'll keep you informed with the analysis as we progress. In the meantime, we've got stats on how much synthetic refrigerant we collected and destroyed as the Recovery Trust.
