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05.10.2022 News Green Cooling Summit 2022 | Highlights

852 registrations from 100 countries,  24 speakers, 2 days, 1 goal: Advancing Green Cooling in supermarkets! Please note that materials from each day are available at the bottom of this page.

28.07.2023 News Green Cooling Initiative donates R290 Air Conditioners to Ugandan Institutions

The Green Cooling Initiative (GCI) has donated a total of nine propane (R290)-based split air-conditioning units to Uganda’s Kyambogo University and the Uganda National Association of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (UNARA).

02.04.2024 News Advancing Energy Efficiency: Insights from Uganda's MEPS Workshop

From March 25th to 27th, GIZ Uganda, alongside the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), East African Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (EACREEE), and the United Nations Environment Programme, orchestrated a pivotal workshop on the Uganda National Consultations for the East Africa Regional Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for Residential Refrigerators and Room Air Conditioners.

07.09.2023 News R290 Air Conditioner Training builds safe handling competency in Uganda

Technical training for the safe handling of R290 (propane) air conditioners builds competency in system brazing, leak detection and vacuuming for the 89 students, technicians and trainers currently involved in the program offered at four Ugandan technical institutes.

04.10.2023 News GIZ Sustainability award winner 2023: Towards the 1st CO2 neutral GIZ Country office in Uganda

The GIZ Uganda Country Office has taken a significant step towards environmental sustainability by replacing old air conditioners (ACs) with eco-friendly “Blue Angel” ecolabel certified and highly efficient technology. 17 efficient ACs, with an A+++ energy efficiency rating, that use natural refrigerant (R290) have been successfully installed. They replaced old inefficient fixed speed AC units that utilised the synthetic refrigerants R22 or R410A, which are ozone depleting, climate harmful and pollutive refrigerants including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and Trifluoroacetic Acid impact.

03.05.2023 News Trainers, Technicians and Dealers in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning trained in Green Cooling

Several treaties on the control and elimination of substances that contribute to global warming have been signed worldwide. These include the Vienna Convention for the protection of the ozone layer, the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone layer, the Kyoto Protocol, and most recently, the  Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.