Watch the Opening Plenary:
Schedule:
3.00 - 5.00 pm: Opening Plenary (Beinecke Auditorium)
Welcome and Program Overview:
Stuart DeCew, Executive Director, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale
Why is Life Cycle Refrigerant Management a Climate Priority:
Anastasia O’Rourke, Senior Managing Director, Carbon Containment Lab
The International and National Policy Context for Scaling LRM:
Scott Stone, Founder & President, Glencoe Strategies
Industry Deep Dive Short Presentations: Industry perspectives on motivating the mitigation of super-polluting refrigerant gases
David C. Meadows II, Director of Technology, Stulz
Pooya Soltanian, Engineer, IKEA North America Real Estate
Helen Walter-Terrinoni, Director of Global Climate Policy, Trane
Mike Armstrong, Managing Director and President, Americas, A-gas
Kathy Loftus, Sustainability Advisor, Grocery Sector
Panel Discussion of Industry Perspectives and Audience Q&A:
Zoe Dawson, CEO, REEF (moderator)
Industry Presenters Listed Above
5.00 - 6.00 pm: Public Reception (outside Beinecke Auditorium)
On February 20-21, 2025, The Carbon Containment Lab convened a high-impact group of industry experts, advocacy organizations, policymakers, and academic researchers at The Yale School of Management to work together on advancing the scale-up and speed of implementation of lifecycle refrigerant management (LRM) practices.
Why is this so important? Refrigerant gases are hundreds to thousands of times more potent than CO2 on a ton-for-ton basis if they leak or are released at equipment end-of-life. In the US, the collective amount of gas in existing equipment (known as the “installed refrigerant bank”) is set to double through 2050, growing to 6.9 billion tons of CO2 equivalent–a volume greater than current U.S. annual economy-wide CO2e emissions. Want to learn more? Watch the opening plenary of the Yale Cooling Conference 2025 which took place on Thursday, February 20.
This meeting was hosted by Carbon Containment Lab with support from the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY), the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale (ISPS), Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC), and Refrigerant Emissions Elimination Forum (REEF).
