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  • 06.08.2024 News New Standard for Uganda's cooling sector

    In a consultative stakeholder’s workshop new quality and safety standards for Uganda’s cooling sector were discussed. The results will help to save energy and reduce the environmental impact.

  • 01.08.2024 News Donation of and training on environmentally friendly Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (RAC) technologies in Uganda

    In July 2024, 17 RAC technicians have been trained on R290 commercial fridges. Furthermore, 12 R600a freezers have been donated to national training centers for further hands-on training.

  • 31.07.2024 News Side Events at OEWG46 - Accelerating the transition to future friendly cooling

    To break the vicious circle of rising temperatures, growing demand for cooling and constantly increasing greenhouse gas emissions from cooling, we need to switch to Green Cooling. Our first side event at the OEWG46 in Montreal provided insights into the interactions between suitable regulatory frameworks and market trends that are accelerating future friendly ACs and heat pumps usage in China and Europe. The second side event put spotlight on a sustainable refrigerant management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as ozone-depleting substances from end-of-life cooling equipment.
     

  • 31.07.2024 News Training of trainers on Eco-friendly refrigerants in Bangladesh

    With global temperatures rising, urbanization progressing, and economies growing, the demand for cooling solutions is increasing rapidly. Unfortunately, many of the current refrigerants harm the environment and significantly contribute to global temperature rise. In 2023, the refrigeration sector was responsible for an estimated ten to twelve percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.To combat this, the international community has committed in the Montreal Protocol to phase out ozone-depleting substances, which also have a high global warming potential, such as CFCs and HCFCs. In the Kigali Amendment, they have agreed on phasing-down climate damaging HFCs. In response to these challenges, a five-day training of trainers took place at the Bangladesh-Korea Technical Training Centre (BKTTC), Dhaka in May 2024.

  • 31.07.2024 News Theory, Practice and Networking - A Brazilian Cool Training

    16 technicians and trainers in the refrigeration and air conditioning sector came to Maintal in Germany from Brazil. They participated in a two-weeks training and learnt how to handle natural refrigerants.

  • 29.07.2024 News National Ozone Units - Cool Training in Germany

    One week of practical training and theoretical sessions lies behind a group of policy makers in the climate and ozone protection sector. They all participated in a training in Germany in June.

  • 24.07.2024 News Ecolabels for Refrigerators and Freezers in the Philippines

    Cool Contributions fighting Climate Change II (C4II) implemented by GIZ on behalf of the International Climate Initiative of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV-IKI) provided a grant agreement to the Philippine Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, Inc. (PCEPSDI) to update ecolabel criteria for refrigerators and freezers and establish a new ecolabel criterion for room air conditioners. 

  • 24.07.2024 News A Peak into the World of F-gas End of Life and Destruction as NDC Contribution

    On 14 May 2024, Cool Contributions fighting Climate Change II (C4II) implemented by GIZ organized a study tour on fluorinated greenhouse gases or F-gases at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) with the Department Environment and Natural Resources, its Climate Change Service and Environmental Management Bureau’s National Ozone Unit, Chemical Management Section and Regional Offices involved in the disposal chain of custody of waste F-gases from Philippine industries. 

  • 24.07.2024 News How to: Negotiation Skills Training in Thailand

    To actively participate in international negotiations, specific techniques and skills are needed. GIZ organized a skills training in Thailand to prepare the participants for future negotiations.

  • 24.07.2024 News Cool Training in Thailand

    18 air conditioner and refrigeration (RAC) technicians had the chance to participate in a Cool Training in Thailand. They learnt how to handle the natural refrigerant R290.