Turkey Starts Project Designed to Encourage Low-GWP Refrigerants

United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO) and Soğutma Sanayii İş Adamları Derneği (SOSİAD) – Turkish association of refrigeration industry and businessmen – signed a contract to jointly carry out the project titled ‘Demonstration and Pilot Activities for Encouraging Low-Global Warming Potential (GWP) Refrigerants in the Republic of Turkey’. Requested by the Turkish government in agreement with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the project is committed to imposing bans on the import and installation of new systems containing hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) refrigerant R22.