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Free, Register Here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.aashe.org\/calendar\/refrigerant-management\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n Action is needed now by college staff in facilities, EHS, sustainability, student life, business offices, auxiliary services, housing, dining, planning, and procurement. Changes within all these staff areas to manage a group of very damaging greenhouse gases is environmentally and legally required.<\/p>\n In 2016, 170 countries agreed to ratify the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty that phased down hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs) refrigerants, a class of potent greenhouse gases. HFC refrigerants are thousands of times more potent compared with carbon dioxide, and are among the fastest-growing climate pollutants in the world.<\/p>\n This treaty spurred a global push for better management of HFCs and a transition to climate-friendly refrigerants.\u00a0 The United States recently committed to these goals via bipartisan legislative action.<\/p>\n The good news is that\u00a0Project Drawdown\u00a0<\/a>estimates that refrigerant management has the potential to reduce emissions by 57.75 gigatons of CO2eq through 2025, worldwide, and to prevent a crucial .5 degrees Celsius of atmospheric warming.\u00a0Other groups estimate<\/a>\u00a0that improved refrigerant management could generate $39 billion in economic benefits by 2027. (If warming exceeds 1.5 degrees Celsius, scientists predict that over three billion lives will be at risk.)<\/p>\n The webinar will feature experts on integrating refrigerant management best practices into student and staff initiatives, legislation impacting HVAC equipment, buying options for sustainable technologies, and leaders on programmatic responses.<\/p>\n This webinar\u00a0on what actions campuses are taking to address this critical topic is brought to you by\u00a0Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium<\/a>, along with the\u00a0U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development<\/a>, the\u00a0Yale Refrigerants Initiative<\/a>, and\u00a0Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)<\/a>,\u00a0Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA)<\/a>,\u00a0Association of College and University Housing Officers \u2013 International (ACUHO-I)<\/a>,\u00a0APPA \u2013 Leadership in Educational Facilities<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8699,"featured_media":34062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,40,19,21,7,12,13,8,9],"class_list":["post-39464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-alumni","tag-event","tag-local","tag-outside-pnw","tag-pnw","tag-portland-area","tag-recent-grads","tag-seattle-area","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39465,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39464\/revisions\/39465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}