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Business & Policy Climate
50%
45%
40%
35%
QUESTION: “How is the Business and Policy Climate
evolving in your country (location of organisation)?”
33%
41%
40%
45%
46%
34%
37%
... if the organisation does not offer or have plans to offer Natural Refrigerant products
& services
39%
36%
38%
40%
39% 39%
38%
35%
30%
29%
32%
30%
29%
25%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
2%
3%
4%
3%
highly negative
5%
17%
9%
5%
rather negative
not moving in any direction
rather positive
14%
18%
11%
4%
highly positive
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
7%
7%
13%
10% 10% 10% 10%
6%
highly negative
rather negative
not moving in any direction
rather positive
16% 13%
10%
0%
highly positive
95
46% see rather positive conditions for
Natural Refrigerants
Overall, the market & policy conditions for natural
refrigerants are rated as being rather positive ones.
However, when looking at the conditions per natural
refrigerant, marked differences can be found: while CO 2
can count on the best perceived frameworks for market
expansion, hydrocarbons seem to face the highest
challenges at the moment. This, however, can partly be
attributed to the fact that a majority of respondents
come from Europe where the market prospects for CO 2
are generally positive.
ammonia
hydrocarbons
co 2
Non-NR Refrigerant Industry more
sceptic
Only taking into account respondents not offering or
planning to offer natural refrigerant services or products,
the business & policy climate for natural working fluids
overall is also considered to be a rather positive one.
Divided by refrigerants, however, respondents are
generally more sceptic than their NR counterparts, with
10% saying that conditions for ammonia, carbon dioxide
and hydrocarbons individually are highly negative, and
around one-third saying that the markets and policy
frameworks would not be moving in any direction.
ammonia
hydrocarbons
co 2
TOTAL responses: 511