The regulations and standards session at this year’s ATMOsphere America provided updates to three key organisations’ recent work, as well as an exploration of California’s radical plans to reduce 80% of HFCs by 2030 and updates to the policies of the EU, Japan and China.

The policy and regulation session held on the 2^nd day provided the opportunity for attendees to get a grasp of the change that is going to rip through the country. For some, this was seen as a potential challenge but for other stakeholders, such as the California Air Resources Board (CARB), it was seen as not enough with their own State-level policy looking to go beyond HFCs completely: an EU-like phasedown is expected to be announced in the next year, potentially exceeding developments in the EU and Japan.

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