AUSTRALIA and distribution , healthcare and pharmaceuticals and virtually all other human activities . The importance of the HVAC & R industry in Australia is demonstrated by the following statistics :
• 45 M individual installations
• 2 % of GDP , $ 26B annual spend , $ 6B capital investment PA , perhaps $ 100 B installed HVAC & R infrastructure at current $ value
• 22 % of electricity consumption
• 12 / 14 of national CO2e emissions ( GHG emissions )
• 20,000 firms , 170,000 direct employees , of whom about 70,000 are licensed to handle fluorocarbon refrigerants .
This same level of development is apparent throughout the industrialised world and is rapidly being realized in developing countries reflecting the fundamental role of HVAC & R in economic development . The industry offers major sources of energy efficiency and the resulting cost savings throughout the world .
HVAC & R Climate Change Impact The contribution of HVAC & R to greenhouse gas emissions is pervasively misunderstood and understated .
The energy consumption of the HVAC & R industry ( indirect emissions ) is extremely high ( 22.3 % of electricity , about 10 % of national emissions ) reflecting the many operating systems and their continuous use . It is direct emissions that are little understood and pervasively misrepresented . The Australian national accounts report refrigerant emissions to be about 1 % of national emissions . This dramatically understates the volume of direct emissions for a series of reasons that defy logic and give rise to a great deal of misunderstanding .
The real impact of the HVAC & R industry in Australia is in the order of 14 % of national emissions . This is comprised of 10 % of national emissions due to energy consumption and 4 % due to unintentional and intentional fluorocarbon refrigerant emissions . This understatement matters a great deal . It has the effect of failing to recognise HVAC & R as a primary potential source of emissions reduction . It has the effect of failing to recognise that there are
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