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12.03.2021 News Cool Talks: "Natural or no refrigerants are the only way we can ensure a future for all"
At shecco, Pilar Aleu and Ilana Koegelenberg both advocate for more climate-friendly cooling. We asked them about their motivation, the upcoming natural refrigerant tradeshow and why we need more women in the industry.
26.02.2021 News Cool Talks: "The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol should be much more ambitious"
Project engineer Collin Bootsveld works hard every day to make sure that by 2030 all Colruyt supermarkets are equipped with climate-friendly refrigeration systems. We spoke to him about his ambitions and his vision of an HFC-free future.
18.02.2021 News Cool Training Pioneers: Interview #1
Between welding copper pipes and watching the World Cup with new friends: Abolfazl Radmanesh, RAC trainer from Iran, talks about his participation in the first Cool Training in 2014.
12.02.2021 News Cool Talks: "Social justice and environmental protection cannot exist as separate battles"
Avipsa Mahapatra first experienced the tension between climate protection and economic imperatives during her childhood in India. Today she is Climate Campaign Lead at EIA U.S. and talks with us about her personal 'ikigai' and her vision of an HFC-free future.
29.01.2021 News Green Cooling Summit 2021: Managing the HFC phase-down with natural refrigerants
The virtual summit takes place from 25 - 27 May 2021 and addresses political and technical approaches for the implementation of the HFC phase-down under the Kigali Amendment.
29.01.2021 News Cool Talks: "Green Cooling technologies are simply something we know and we are good at"
The environment concerns us all, so believe Peter Michael Hansen, Head of Global Application, and Frank Elsen, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), of compressor manufacturer Secop. In our interview they talk about their motivation to promote Green Cooling and what an ideal RAC sector would look like.
08.01.2021 News Cool Talks: "I am happy to contribute professionally to making RAC more climate-friendly"
Forest dieback and red rivers: F-Gas policy expert Daniel de Graaf (UBA) shares some childhood memories about why he personally cares about the environment and how he contributes to climate action in the cooling sector today.
18.12.2020 News "Always a two-way street" - Interview with Philip Owen
The European Union was one of the first movers regarding F-gas regulation and HCFC phase-out. As part of the SPODS project in Latin America and the Caribbean, we had the pleasure of interviewing Philip Owen of the European Commission.
18.12.2020 News Not a waste of time: Managing the waste of old RAC appliances
Throughout the past years, the project "Management and destruction of existing ozone depleting substances in ODS banks" (ODS Banks) has successfully addressed the often overlooked topic of ODS and HFC banks.
18.12.2020 News C4 project on the home stretch
The project 'Cool Contributions fighting Climate Change (C4)' started in 2016 and will expire at the end of June 2021 after the partner countries Costa Rica, Grenada, Iran, Philippines and Vietnam have successfully developed strategies to reduce greenhouse gases in the RAC sector.