Event

Event Details

Date	8:30-9:45am (Eastern African Time), November 3, 2025
Participants	More than 100 participants from government, international organizations, research institutions, NGOs, private sectors, and other relevant entities
Objectives	To take stock of the progress of the work of the Cooling Hub of the focus areas To share the planned activities related to the Cooling Hub in MOP37 in Nairobi, as well as UNFCCC COP30 in Belem To share indicative ideas on activities that might be included in the plan of 2026

Meeting Agenda

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Time	Contents	Speakers
8:30	Opening and framing of the meeting	Co-Lead
8:35-8:45	Stocktaking presentation	CCAC Secretariat
8:45-9:10	Updates by participants and inventory of activities Lifecycle Refrigerant Management (LRM)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Environmental Dumping of Cooling Appliances　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Cooling Efficiency　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Finance	Inputs provided by participants
9:10-9:15	Sharing activities in MOP37 and COP30	CCAC Secretariat
9:15-9:35	Exchange of ideas on 2026 activities	Inputs provided by participants
9:35-9:45	Wrap up	Co-Lead

Meeting Content

Since the updated priority areas endorsed in the Board Meeting in 2024, the Cooling Hub and its partners have actively engaged in activities related to Lifecycle Refrigerant Management (LRM), Environmental Dumping of Cooling Appliances, Cooling Efficiency, as well as Finance.
At this meeting, progress in activities planned for 2025 was shared, and discussions were held on planned activities for 2026, focusing on three thematic areas: (i) lifecycle refrigerant management (LRM), (ii) energy efficiency, and (iii) environmental dumping.

Regarding with LRM, the meeting featured initiatives in developing countries. This includes cases of development of legal frameworks, including Viet Nam, Turkey, Grenada, and Cambodia. In addition, information was shared on the following:

• Progress made in the development of ODS/HFC bank inventories
• Case studies of the establishment of end-of life refrigerant destruction facilities, primarily through UNIDO’s RRR projects (e.g., Egypt, Tunisia)
• Experiences with the destruction of end-of-life refrigerants using voluntary carbon credit schemes (e.g., Tradewater, A-Gas)
• Case study that regeneration or destruction is carried out through transboundary movement of refrigerants
• Approaches to addressing Basel Convention requirements etc.

It was strongly recognized that Lifecycle Refrigerant Management is now moving beyond the discussion phase and has entered into a concrete implementation stage.