Commercial air conditioners have a large impact on the environment because of the amount of refrigerant is greater than residential air conditioners. For this reason, improvement in environmental performance has increasingly been sought. As a leading company in the industry for mitigating the environmental impact of air conditioning, Daikin became the first company to adopt R-32 to commercial air conditioners. In 2014, Daikin received the Director General Prize by the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy in Japan.