COPA PARTNER & MEMBER COUNTRIES

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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COPA COUNTRIES

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Albania

Bahamas

Botswana

China

Costa
Rica

Dominican
Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

Eswatini

Ghana

Grenada

Honduras

Lesotho

Malawi

Mexico

Namibia

Nigeria

Papua
New
Guinea

Philippines

Senegal

Sierra
Leone

South
Africa

South
Sudan

The
Gambia

Togo

Tunisia

Zimbabwe

South Africa

Member

South Africa is committed to preserving the environment and addressing climate change related issues based on science and equity. In 2015, South Africa signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement to fight against climate change and committed to achieve a “peak, plateau and decline” greenhouse gas trajectory at a level between 398 and 614 MtCO2 e/year by 2030. In 2019, South Africa ratified the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to reduce the consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) to simultaneously protect the ozone layer and contribute to mitigating climate change. In 2021, revised greenhouse gas trajectory target ranges of 398-510 Mt CO2 -eq for 2025, and 398-440 Mt CO2 -eq for 2030 were issued, as well as ambitions to reach a net zero carbon economy by 2050.

Activities

With the support from COPA, South Africa will implement the following activities:

Conduct a status quo analysis of ODS banks, their management in South Africa and to develop a concept for next steps towards an end-of-life treatment in the Gauteng province.
Conduct training courses for a total of 300 candidates on recovery of refrigerants and sustainable management of end-of-life management of air-conditioning equipment.
Supply the necessary tools and equipment required for the training courses.
Support Zimbabwe to export recovered ODS for high temperature destruction in a thermal plant in South Africa, and thereby to jointly pilot regional cooperation on ODS/HFC destruction.

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

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