Climate & Environment
Refrigerant Management
Controlling refrigerants across their lifecycle — low-GWP substitution, leak prevention, recovery and destruction — among the most cost-effective climate measures.
Definition
Refrigerant management is the control of refrigerant substances across their lifecycle: transitioning to low-global-warming-potential alternatives under the Kigali Amendment, preventing leaks from cooling equipment, and recovering and destroying refrigerants at servicing and end of life rather than venting them. Because legacy refrigerants (CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs) have warming potentials hundreds to thousands of times that of CO₂, small avoided leaks have outsized climate effect.
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