2025 Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 99-103
This paper sheds a light on key elements of the legal framework that enables effective implementation of lifecycle refrigerant management (LRM), taking an example of Japan’s Act on Rational Use and Proper Management of Fluorocarbons. Our analysis suggests the Act has been designed to provide a clear definition of the roles and responsibilities of related actors engaged in LRM with a set of standards and procedures, as well as measures of increasing transparency of LRM actions. To address the continued challenges to reducing fluorocarbon emissions into the atmosphere, the results of implementation have regularly been monitored, and the effectiveness of the Act has been reviewed to gradually strengthen its contents.
