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10.06.2026 News Highlights | Green Cooling Summit 2026: Too green to scale? Why is R290 Still Struggling in Room Air Conditioning and How to Make it the Standard?

Two days full of keynotes, presentations, lively discussions, and new impressions on sustainable cooling and heating in buildings are now behind us. We would like to thank everybody who participated in this year's Green Cooling Summit and made the event a success. We hope that you learned as much as we did from these two days are now pursuing your path to more climate-friendly cooling more consistently than ever. Find all recordings and presentations from the first day of the Green Cooling Summit. Find all recordings and presentations from the second day of the Green Cooling Summit …

19.02.2026 News From Policy to Practice: Operationalising MEPS for Air Conditioners in Eswatini

enforcement. The workshop, which took place from 3 to 5 February 2026, was hosted by the Ministry of Energy of Eswatini with support from the Cooling Programme for Southern Africa (CooPSA) , a project …

ProjectGreener Reefers in international maritime transport

Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Duration: 04/2023 until 10/2026 🌊 Why it matters Maritime transport moves 80% of global trade and accounts for about 3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. …

25.08.2026 News Cape Town secures a sustainable future for refrigerated maritime containers

On Thursday, 2 July 2026, GIZ officially handed over a CO₂ training reefer to West Coast TVET College at its Atlantis Campus in Cape Town, South Africa. The [...] technology. The third five-day basic training, held in July 2026, brought the programme to West Coast TVET College in Atlantis, Cape Town, where ACRA delivered the course in collaboration with the [...] in South Africa. Read more: https://www.impactunlimited.co.za/2026/08/14/west-coast-college-receives-major-green-tech-boost/ …

05.02.2026 News Windows of Opportunity: ACT MEPS Project in the Philippines

The Philippines remains unique as an air conditioner market in Southeast Asia. Window-type air conditioners still dominate the Philippine market composed of small capacity fixed speed units of less than 2kW. Unlike neighboring member states of the Association of Southeast East Asian Nations (ASEAN) where these types of units are outliers, the Philippines is described as having window-type ACs as the norm available to consumers in general. Given the market dominance of window-type units in terms of availability of models, the mean energy performance ratings are usually low based on empirical evidence through various studies of the ACTMEPS project and risks dragging down the overall performance of the AC market in the Philippines. The ACTMEPS Philippine component has been focusing on this aspect of the AC market in the Philippines. Major manufacturers and importers of AC brands were present at the event providing their views, insights and needs to prepare for the second level upgrade of the agreed ASEAN harmonized MEPS level of 6.09 Cooling Seasonal Performance Factor (CSPF). The consultation and workshop elicited the needs of stakeholders in the upgrade of the MEPS in terms of feasibility and readiness and strategies to achieve success. The event also featured a panel discussion specifically focused on the advantages and limitations of window-type air conditioners. Would an ambitious MEPS naturally phase-out these products from the market? The predominance of the window-type AC units is attributed to building design of mass housing units which usually specifies a slot for window AC according to experts Bienvenido “Benny” Gonzales and Sommai Phon Amnuaisuk. T echnological innovations such as variable speed compressors, high efficiency motors, U-shape design and the use of R290 refrigerants are options for design improvements that can raise collective MEPS for this special segment of the Philippine AC market. There truly are windows of opportunities to improve energy efficiency. ACTMEPS is implemented by GIZ International Service . The work is funded by a grant from the Clean Cooling Collaborative …

08.05.2026 News Site visit of Bosch AC manufacturing facility in the Philippines

Country Program Report, which is scheduled for submission on May 1, 2026. To maintain consistency with industry standards, the EMB-POD team requested that Bosch provide a revised and consolidated dataset …

15.11.2021 News Midea sets benchmark for more climate protection with first R290 model on the German-European market

, this figure is expected to rise to around 115 million units in 2026. [1] Even the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t affected the market growth of the most widely used type of air conditioner in the world. In …

01.10.2019 News GIZ Proklima Hosts XPS Form Sector Workshop in China

of HCFC consumption by 37.6 percent from the baseline by 2026. The second objective is to support the development of sustainable technology used to carry out the Montreal Protocol's industry …

01.07.2026 News A policymaker at the workbench: Hands on with natural refrigerants

to the tools myself. I joined the Cool Training (8 June-12 June, 2026) at the Bundesfachschule Kälte-Klima-Technik (BFS), the German national training school for refrigeration and air conditioning, in …