About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Europe 2015
published on 16 March 2015
10 pages
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Katja Becken from the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) presented on the approaches to implementing the EU Regulations in Germany, which is currently aligning the national legislation with the EU F-Gas Regulation. Activities highlighted included the Climate Action Programme 2020 (adopted in December 2014) which sees that Germany is taking a pro-active approach to promoting natural refrigerants. Becken sees that activities will focus on strengthening technical advisory services, training and education on natural refrigerants, as well as continuous and extended promotion of non-halogenated refrigerants, such as CO₂ and hydrocarbons in commercial refrigeration and other applications such as transport.

About the speaker(s)

Katja Becken

 

Katja Becken is a Senior Policy Advisor at the German Federal Environment Agency. For over 15 years she has been responsible for issues regarding ozone depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases. Her work field consists of policies and measures to reduce F-gas emissions at national and European level, with a special focus on natural refrigerants. She obtained her degree from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, after studying environmental engineering and technical chemistry. She complemented her studies with courses in environmental management at the University of Nottingham, UK.