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08.01.2021 News Cool Talks: "I am happy to contribute professionally to making RAC more climate-friendly"
Researching environmental risks and finding viable solutions, advising policy-makers and informing the public, as well as implementing German environmental law: the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is …
18.12.2020 News "Always a two-way street" - Interview with Philip Owen
Preparations of the European F-gas regulation began as early as 2006. The official phase-out followed in 2014. In order to pass on this early experience, the EU, together with BMZ, supports seven coun …
18.12.2020 News Not a waste of time: Managing the waste of old RAC appliances
While the international community has agreed to regulate the production and consumption of ODS by the Montreal Protocol and to phase-down HFCs with its Kigali Amendment, no agreements have been made r …
18.12.2020 News C4 project on the home stretch
Measures for the sustainable transformation of the sector have been implemented in all countries. Building on the promising results of C4, a succeeding project is in the planning. We would like to tak …
18.12.2020 News Three countries – one goal
Even though 2020 was a challenging year - as it was for all of us - we are proud of what we achieved with the Green Cooling Initiative. During the project runtime we have worked with our partner count …
17.12.2020 News Virtual workshop on energy performance testing in Colombia
Minimum Energy Performance standards (MEPS) are an important policy instrument to improve the energy efficiency of appliances and to reduce CO 2 emissions. They therefore play an important role in pro …
17.12.2020 News Energy efficient cooling in Bangladesh
“Despite the current situation, several walk-through energy audits have already been done – and more are planned” reports Anika Zwiener, junior advisor at GIZ Proklima, on the K-CEP project Energy Eff …
11.12.2020 News Making the best of it – Highlights of the HCFC Phase-Out projects
“One of my highlights was the meeting with our African partner NOUs in Nairobi in February this year”, says Birgit Mayer. She is coordinating the GIZ Proklima’s HPMP activities in Africa. The goal of …
10.12.2020 News Recap MOP32: Proklima successfully hosted two virtual side events
Even though organising events online is nothing new for us, the two side events at this year's Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MOP) were a little premiere. For the first time we could …
10.12.2020 News Let’s Go Green! Cool vibes for the new year
When the SPODS coordinators Mónica Silva Gonzalez and Maria Carolina Velez think back to the past project year, one special thing comes to their minds. “A highlight of this year was to experience how …