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.