Japan’s Ministry of the Environment has announced the convening of a fourth joint advisory committee session on 26 June 2026 to examine the implementation record of the country’s revised fluorocarbon management legislation. The gathering brings together two parallel expert bodies — one subcommittee sitting under the Central Environment Council’s Global Environment Division, and a working group operating under the Industrial Structure Council’s Chemical Substances Policy Subcommittee — reflecting the joint Environment Ministry / Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) governance structure that oversees fluorocarbon policy.
The review was prompted by a statutory trigger: five years have now elapsed since a 2019 amendment to the Act on Rational Use and Proper Management of Fluorocarbons entered into force, with that threshold reached at end-March 2025. The joint body is tasked with assessing how the amended rules have operated in practice and identifying any further regulatory measures needed.
The session will be conducted in hybrid format, with in-person participation alongside a public livestream via the Ministry of the Environment’s YouTube channel. Meeting materials are to be posted to the ministry’s website in advance, and a parallel notice has been issued on the METI website.
Carbon Market Context
*The in-house database returns CDR methodology matches (Enhanced Rock Weathering, Puro.earth Terrestrial Biomass, BCarbon Soil Carbon) and broader credit-market statistics against this item — these are low-relevance semantic matches. Fluorocarbon refrigerant regulation operates under a separate domestic legal track and is not directly connected to voluntary carbon credit methodologies. Database context is not applied here.*
Source
- 中央環境審議会 地球環境部会 フルオロカーボン対策小委員会 産業構造審議会 保安・消費生活用製品安全分科会 化学物質政策小委員会 フロン類対策ワーキンググループ 合同会議（第４回）の開催について — 環境省 (Ministry of the Environment, Japan), date not stated in release
Translation & Accuracy Notes
- — The Act is rendered here as “Act on Rational Use and Proper Management of Fluorocarbons,” a common unofficial translation; the ministry’s own English materials should be checked for the confirmed title before publication.
- — The press release does not include an explicit publication date; the meeting date of 26 June 2026 (令和8年6月26日) is confirmed in the text, but the release date is inferred from context as prior to that date.