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Back-to-back with the OEWG in Bangkok, a two-day workshop on inventories and MRV systems in the RAC sector took place

Almost 20 RAC trainers from nine African countries participated in vocational education workshops at the Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration Academy (ACRA) in South Africa in November and December 2018. The trainings were organized by GCI to support local technical expertise on environmentally friendly cooling technology.

30 experts in the field of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) participated in a GIZ workshop on the manual dismantling of RAC appliances, which took place as part of the "1st International Congress for the Integral Management of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) and its Contribution to Climate Stability in Colombia".

More and more companies switch their production lines to natural refrigerants. Producers, consumers, and the environment are all benefitting.

Under the E-Waste Webinar series of the BMZ sectoral programme "Concepts for sustainable solid waste management" and in cooperation with the "Solving the E-Waste Problem" (StEP) initiative, the ODS Banks project and core elements of the manual dismantling of refrigeration and air conditioning systems were presented on the 5th of September.

On June 12th 2019, GIZ Proklima collaborated with the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment's International Environmental Cooperation Center and UNIDO to organize a one-day XPS workshop in Beijing, China.

During its Global Programming Conference in August 2019 in Songdo, South Korea, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) highlighted the importance of climate action in the cooling sector.

GIZ Proklima and the Ozone Technical Unit (UTO) of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, carry out activities aimed at evaluating alternatives for the correct final management of the RAC equipment and the refrigerant substances they contain.

With five trainings and over 60 participants in 2019 we have had another successful Cool Training year in Germany.
 

GIZ Proklima successfully carried out two trainings on the safe application of hydrocarbon refrigerants