Clean Cooling

The goal of the Clean Cooling Network (CCN) is resilient cooling for all who need it without contributing to climate change. We aim to provide the go-to platform for knowledge sharing, information, training, and networking. Stakeholders from subsistence farmers to technology innovators, academics and policy-makers will have the opportunity to engage with and learn from each other, interacting closely in the generation of new concepts, methods and ideas. This collaborative environment also presents the opportunity to unite and form partnerships with high-profile initiatives.

There are five key pillars to our work: Training and capacity building; Finance and Business Models; Enabling Policies; Technology innovation, testing and demonstration; System Design and Modelling.

Through this network, users can gain access to a wide range of resources including academic working groups and sandpit events, our cold-chain training courses at all levels (from foundational to more advanced train-the-trainer courses) as well as our MSc. programme, cooling and cold-chain symposiums and conferences, technical materials, post-harvest advice and support, global vaccine distribution and delivery strategies and more.

The Clean Cooling Network supports our sustainable cooling and cold-chain centres on the ground in Africa (Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-chain), India and beyond.

The programme is a collaboration between the Governments of UK and Rwanda, the UN Environment Programme and an international partnership of Universities led by the Centre for Sustainable Cooling, University of Birmingham. It is supported by industry, including Carrier and Danfoss, and International Development Agencies, such as IFC and FAO.

The project now brings together more than 60 researchers and experts as well as industry and international development agencies, harnessing their collective expertise, resources, and commitment to create the front-line capability to accelerate a resilient, sustainable, and inclusive bottom-up transformation of cooling and cold-chain systems worldwide.