The European Partnership for Energy and the Environment (EPEE), representing manufacturing and research companies and associations operating in the refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump industry in Europe, today signalled its disappointment with the European Parliament’s rejection of several amendments included in the F-Gas Regulation Revision, which would have helped Europe achieve its climate and energy independence goals while maintaining an affordable but ambitious regulation.
“The European Parliament F-gas vote harms European industry and harms Europeans by pushing unrealistic goals that undermine the heat pump rollout and hold back the decarbonisation of the built environment — indirectly benefiting fossil fuel-based technologies,” said Russell Patten, Director General of EPEE. “We are dismayed that Parliament has rejected pragmatic amendments to the implementation of the F-gas regulation revision.”
Read our joint industry statement here.
