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Cold and Hard Facts Refrigerants Q & A- Oct 19, 2023
Why is GWP not and should not be the only metric to evaluate a refrigerant’s environmental impact?
The impact should be evaluated accounting for both the direct emission of refrigerants that escape from the HVACR products and the indirect emission of (CO2) from the electricity consumed by the products over their lifetime. This is called Life Cycle Climate Performance (LCCP). The lower the LCCP is, the less the environmental impact.
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