Martin Dieryckx is an independent consultant since July 2026. Before he was General Manager of the EMEA environment research centre of Daikin Europe NV and advisor for North America environment aspects. He has 44 years of experience in Daikin for product development, environment research, standards and regulations related to air conditioning , heat pumps, refrigeration and chillers.
He has expertise on the environmental impact to the business including safety aspects, life cycle environmental impact and circular economy.
He was one of the lead authors of the IPCC Special report on safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system- Issues related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons and is recognized for its contribution to the Nobel peace prize award 2007 for the IPCC.
In the RTOC ( UNEP Refrigeration,A/C and heatpumps Rechnical Option Committee) he was co-author for the heatpumps in 2010 and lead author for the reports 2014,2018 and 2022 and co-author for several other chapters.
He is a master of science in engineering technology and is a ‘Fellow’ and Director at Large of ASHRAE.