This webinar, focusing on the global status of decommissioning of nuclear facilities, will open the 2022 series of the IAEA Back End Wednesday Webinars. International experts will discuss the findings of a recently completed IAEA collaborative project on this topic. Issues being addressed will include current trends in decommissioning, including the main impacting factors on strategy definition and on project implementation. Resource needs for implementation, including human, financial and technological aspects, will also be considered.