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The Technical Options Committee Refrigeration, A/C and Heat Pumps
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- Table 1-1: "Member countries" of UNEPs Refrigeration, A/C and Heat Pumps Technical Options Committee
- Table 1-2: Affiliations of the members of UNEPs Technical Options Committee on Refrigeration, A/C and Heat Pumps
- Table 1-3: Organisations that participated in the peer review of the UNEP RTOC Assessment Report
1.3 The Technical Options Committee Refrigeration, A/C and Heat PumpsThis Technical Options Committee Assessment Report on Refrigeration, A/C and Heat Pumps (hereafter called “RTOC Assessment Report”) forms part of the UNEP review pursuant to Article 6 of the Montreal Protocol. It is part of the 2014 assessment work of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (requested by the Parties in Montreal (Decision XXIII/11)). The information collected (particularly in the form of the Executive Summaries) will also be part of the Technology and Economic Assessment Report 2014, as well as the overall 2014 Synthesis Report composed by the three Assessment Panel co-chairs, the beginning of 2015. The 2014 RTOC Assessment Report has been drafted in the form of a number of chapters. There are chapters on refrigerants and their properties, on the different R/AC application areas and one chapter on sustainable refrigeration. The structure of the report was chosen more or less similar to the structure of the 2010 RTOC Assessment Report.
Each of the chapters was developed by 2-6 experts in the specific sector, and the chapter was chaired by a Chapter Lead Author - who did the larger part of the drafting and the co-ordination. The 2014 RTOC included 40 representatives from Asian, European, Middle-East, Latin and North American companies, universities and governments, as well as independent experts (see Table 1-1). These representatives have been full (reporting) members; as resource persons the RTOC also had a small number of reviewing members. Affiliations of the members are listed in Table 1-2 (40 organisations (including consultancies) were involved in the drafting of the report). The names and contact details of all members are given as an appendix to this RTOC Assessment Report. Several drafts of the report were made, reviewed by the separate chapters and discussed in five RTOC meetings (outline August 2011, preliminary draft May 2013, a draft December 2013, a draft May 2014, a draft September 2014, the peer review draft October 2014 and a final report December 2014). A preliminary committee meeting was held in Prague (during the IIR congress), August 2011. Drafting and reviewing meetings were held in France (Paris), May 2013, Canada (Montreal), December 2013, Italy (Torino), May 2014, and Germany (Karlsruhe), December 2014. Table 1-2: Affiliations of the members of UNEP's Technical Options Committee on Refrigeration, A/C and Heat Pumps
The report has been peer reviewed by a number of institutions and associations, plus some experts in their personal capacities, each of them reviewing the different chapters sections in a co-ordinated effort in a tight timeframe, i.e., between the last week of October and the end of November 2014 (see Table 1-3 for the organisations and experts involved, total 20). Peer review comments were collected and sorted out, and subsequently sent to all RTOC members. All peer review comments were studied and sorted for a study by the Chapter Lead Authors before the RTOC Meeting in December 2014. The RTOC members in plenary decided on whether or not to amend the text on the basis of the peer review comments during the RTOC meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, December 2014. The RTOC greatly acknowledges the voluntary support given by the peer review institutions and the experts in their personal capacities. Table 1-3: Organisations that participated in the peer review of the UNEP RTOC Assessment Report
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