2025 Workshop on Lifecycle Refrigerant Management (LRM): Progress on Fluorocarbon Banks Inventories and National Action Plans

Pursuant to Decision 91/66 of the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund, 89 Article 5 countries supported by implementing agencies are preparing national inventory of banks of controlled substances and a national plan for management of these substances. Lifecycle Refrigerant Management (LRM) has been identified as one of the focus areas of the CCAC Cooling Hub.

Following the successful conduct of the first workshop on the fluorocarbon inventories banks in 2024, the workshop aims to review progress in the development of national inventories of banks of controlled substances and deepen understanding of participants on the key elements of the national plans for management of these substances.

This event is sponsored by the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), the Ministry of the Environment of Japan/Initiative on Fluorocarbons Life Cycle Management (IFL) and Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and organized in collaboration with Carbon Containment Lab, the Climate Ozone Protection Alliance (COPA), Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), and UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in the margins of, but independent from, the Forty-Seventh Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (OEWG-47).

The workshop will be conducted in English only. Interpretation into other United Nations official languages will not be available.

The workshop will also be livestreamed - link will be shared later.

For more information about the workshop, please contact secretariat [at] ccacoalition.org.

Agenda

8:30-9:00 - Opening Session

• Opening Remarks: Miruza Mohamed, Maldives Ministry of Environment and Tourism, CCAC Cooling Hub Co-Chair
• LRM Recap: Where have we come from, where are we going? - Denise San Valentin, CCAC Secretariat

• Global Banks of ODS and HFCs: 2025 Country-Level Estimates by COPA/Heat - Irene Papst, HEAT

   

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9:00-10:00 Session I: Conducting Inventories of Fluorocarbon Banks: Where are we now? (Session Lead: IFL Secretariat; Facilitator: Makoto Kato, OECC Japan)

• Country Experiences Frieda E. Goagoses, Namibia
• Emilija Kjupeva Nedelkova, North Macedonia
• Marindany Kirui, Kenya
• Camilla Noel, Vanuatu

• Panel Discussion

   

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10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15 Session II: Clinic Break-out Groups Session

Rooms

• Group 1: CR-3 (Main room) - Facilitated by UNEP OzonAction and IFL with Vanuatu, Cambodia
• Group 2 (Asia-Pacific Foyer) - Facilitated by UNIDO and WB with North Macedonia;

• Group 3 (Theatre) - Facilitated by GIZ and UNDP with Kenya

   

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Groupings (*see below)

PART 2: NATIONAL PLANS

11:15-11:30 Developing Action Plans for the collection, transport and disposal of these waste-controlled substances and the blueprint for the environmentally sound management of waste-controlled substances

• Criteria for the Development of the National Plans and Timelines – Federico San Martini, Senior Programme Officer, MLF Secretariat

11:30-13:00 Session III: Recycling, Reclamation and Destruction (Session Lead: UNIDO; Facilitator: Yunrui ZHOU, UNIDO)

• Overview of reclamation and destruction technologies - Mr. Guntram Glasbrenner, Programme Manager, GIZ COPA
• Case studies, country and private sector experiences

• Panel discussion and Q and A with audience (40 minutes)

   

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13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:00 Session IV: Transboundary Movement of Refrigerants – Montreal and Basel Intersection (Session Lead: Carbon Containment Lab

• Introduction & Key conclusions and next steps from Basel Convention LRM side event and interlinkages between the Protocols, Maas Goote, Carraway Strategies
• Video: Interlinkages between the Montreal and Basel Conventions and opportunities for interaction and cooperation, BRS Secretariat
• Destruction facilities around the world and how to close the data gap, Anastasia O’Rourke, Carbon Containment Lab
• Private sector experience in transboundary movement, Maria Jose Guiterrez, Tradewater
• First Interactive session
• Country experiences

• Second Interactive session & closing

   

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16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:15 Session V: Next Steps - Advancing on LRM (Session Lead: Sonal Kumar, CEEW)

• Summary (including from break out sessions) and Key Takeaways (with Civil Society Perspective) - Richie Kaur, NRDC
• Country Key Takeaways

17:15-17:30 Closing - Denise San Valentin, CCAC Secretariat

17:30 End of Workshop

*Break-Out Groups

• Group 1: CR-2 (Main room) - Facilitated by UNEP OzonAction and IFL
• Group 2 (Asia-Pacific Foyer) - Facilitated by UNIDO and WB
• Group 3 (Theatre) - Facilitated by GIZ and UNDP