Chile. The Ministry of the Environment, through the Ozone Unit of the Office of Climate Change, reported the development of several activities in order to implement the Amendment and thus comply with the commitments to reduce these substances.
One of them is the preparation of the National HFC Inventory, which seeks to identify the uses and users of these substances and their alternatives available in the market; in what quantity and which are the most demanded productive sectors.
In addition, based on the information obtained through an inventory, it will be possible to develop the strategy and action plans necessary to promote public policies that manage to comply with the commitments acquired by Chile in this area, and specifically, implement projects that promote the use of alternatives to these harmful substances and thus achieve the reduction goals assumed by our country.
"To date, the Ozone Unit of the Office of Climate Change of the Ministry of the Environment and the Government of Canada -Environment and Climate Change Canada- have carried out several inventories, which have been complementing each other, and have allowed us to cross information to structure a map of HFC use. We have identified that about 85% of HFCs are used in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning applications. In rigid polyurethane foams (used in thermal insulation in equipment and construction) 10% is used. Other uses correspond to the extinction of fire, aerosols for medical use and solvents for specific applications," says Claudia Paratori, Head of the Ozone Unit, the area in charge of carrying out these studies.
Implementation of the Kigali Amendment in Chile
The implementation of the Kigali Amendment has several stages. The first is that the country must have an HFC import and export licensing system, which is equivalent to the registration of importers and exporters that is administered by the National Customs Service; regulations implemented in Chile as of January 1, 2019.
The second stage is the development of an HFC consumption baseline. This will be constructed from national consumption data (imports-exports, provided by Customs) during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. The average consumption of these years will be the baseline in Chile.
Once the consumption baseline has been defined, the third stage begins, which consists of meeting the targets, that is, freezing consumption at the baseline level as of January 1, 2024 and then reductions in consumption, with respect to the value of the baseline (2029 by 10%; by 2035, 30%; by 2040, by 50%; and finally by 2045 80%).
Source: Ministry of Environment of Chile.
