Refrigerants can have high climate impact when they leak during use, servicing or end-of-life handling. Better management reduces emissions without requiring a full redesign of the wider energy system.
For Gelderland, refrigerant management has about 0.098 Mton CO₂-eq reduction potential. The opportunity lies in leak prevention, maintenance, recovery at end of life and a shift to lower-impact refrigerants in cooling and heat-pump systems.