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01.11.2016 News NAMA-Training: Caribbean island states and making climate friendly cooling pay off and financeable
feasibility and cost calculation of cooling systems and their scaling up potential. The first part of the training specifically concentrated on NAMAs, which are actions under the umbrella of a national [...] this workshop on behalf of the IKI-project “Development of NAMAs (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) for the refrigeration and foam production sectors (RAC&F NAMA)” financed by the BMUB. This pilot …
Best practiceSuccess story: Demonstrating climate benefits of a HCFC phase-out in Bangladesh
Development Programme under Bangladesh’s national HCFC phase-out management plan (HPMP). The market transition to green cooling technologies will avoid 65 MT of HCFC-134a emissions annually, as well as savings …
Best practiceSuccess story: Solar-powered cooling in the German Jordanian University
October 2016: After 4 years of careful planning and developing, GIZ and the Jordanian Ministry of Environment (MoEnv) have successfully completed the solar cooling project at the German Jordanian University [...] Amman now relies on a solar-powered cooling system that operates with a high reliability and environmental effectiveness, reducing electricity consumption for cooling by 15%. The project demonstrates the …
Best practiceSuccess story: Solar-powered cooling in the German Jordanian University
October 2016: After 4 years of careful planning and developing, GIZ and the Jordanian Ministry of Environment (MoEnv) have successfully completed the solar cooling project at the German Jordanian University [...] Amman now relies on a solar-powered cooling system that operates with a high reliability and environmental effectiveness, reducing electricity consumption for cooling by 15%. The project demonstrates the …
16.09.2021 News Official launch of the ROCA project in Burkina Faso on World Ozone Day
the urgency of climate action: "The International Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, celebrated on 16 September every year, demonstrates that collective decisions and actions, guided by science, are [...] Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre (ROCA) " (corresponding English title: Ozone and Climate Friendly Cooling in West and Central Africa) was launched in Ouagadougou. Many relevant stakeholders from the Burkinabe [...] cooperation with Burkina Faso’s National Ozone Unit. "It should lead our country towards sustainable cooling, with a gain in energy efficiency, and using natural refrigerants", said Siméon Sawadogo, Minister …
18.12.2020 News "Always a two-way street" - Interview with Philip Owen
reaching their targets of ODS phase-out and early actions on HFC. The SPODS project is about policy advice, strategy development, training, new cooling technologies and much more. In this interview we ask …
01.12.2017 News Green chillers start operations in University and polytechnic schools in Indonesia
auditorium with cool air. Another two cooling systems were placed in the polytechnic schools in Bandung and Bali, mainly to train refrigeration apprentices on safe handling of hydrocarbon cooling systems. All [...] One of the project's objective is to assist in the planning, commission and monitoring of climate-friendly hydrocarbon chillers in various fields of application. In cooperation with the local chiller …
24.01.2024 News Ghana: Green R290 ACs for Hospital bring Unexpected Side Effects
the originally planned location. What started as a properly planned energy efficiency intervention ended up as an emergency measure with a far bigger impact than the project ever planned. The price the [...] interventions have already had a significant impact - albeit in a different way than originally planned. The first step of Korle-Bu’s energetic retrofitting was the installation of automatic voltage s [...] hospital, the automatic voltage stabilizers were not installed in the administration building as planned but in the damaged server room. With this change, the servers could be rebooted immediately, and …
01.06.2016 News GCI Members CIRCE and Shecco cooperating in the EU funded project SuperSmart
this project with their know-how and expertise on green cooling technologies and the accelerated transition to energy efficient and sustainable cooling solutions. SuperSmart has three main objectives: 1. Removal [...] and end-users of heating and cooling solutions within the food retail sector to actively partake in the project and in the formulation of award criteria for the planned European Ecolabel. The survey and [...] aimed at achieving environmental benefits through a fast implementation of efficient heating and cooling solutions, as well as significant economic saving potentials through the reductions of the overall …
12/2020 Publication - VideoEvent Recording: Green Cooling in Public Procurement
rt cooling technologies. Whereas advancing building codes and improving building design to reduce the cooling demand is the ultimate sustainable way forward as long-term measure, immediate actions can [...] In many countries, space cooling in public buildings accounts for over 50% of building related GHG emissions. This share comes along with an enormous mitigation potential. Despite opportunities to cut [...] by promoting more efficient air conditioners using climate-friendly refrigerants. The GIZ project “Cool Contributions fighting Climate Change” (C4) , on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment …