The technologies we rely on to keep cool — air conditioning, refrigeration and heat pumps — often use fluorinated gases (F-gases), which are greenhouse gases.
Europe’s heat pump sector is currently switching to alternative refrigerants with lower global warming potential, in line with the revised EU F-gas Regulation and the EU’s climate targets. How are other continents and countries making this transition?
This is where the new EU-funded IMPACT-F project (Integrated Mitigation Platform for Assessing Climate Targets for F-gases) comes in.
Launched in June 2026, IMPACT-F brings together 14 partners from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, including research institutes, universities, industry groups and international organisations such as EHPA, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR).
The project, coordinated by London South Bank University, is built around one central idea: giving policymakers better tools to understand what is actually happening.
