By Degrees aims to promote, explore and stimulate debate around the role of cooling as critical infrastructure, ensuring societal well-being, economic stability, and public health; adapting and mitigating the impacts of extreme heat to climate change.
Cold chain 2050 – 25 years of substantial change ahead?
11th Mar 2025
Refrigeration systems over the last 25 years have predominantly been vapour compression based1 and this core technology has not changed from the traditional direct expansion and overfeed systems.
Extreme heat, its impact on sport, and solutions for venue design
21st Feb 2025
High temperatures limit when we can play and consume sport and increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves are changing how we design sporting venues.
Adapting Africa’s food system to rising temperatures
18th Feb 2025
A bold action agenda with targets to improve food security, increase productivity, reduce post-harvest losses and stimulate investment in agriculture research, innovation and scaling of adoption.
The gig economy – high temperatures, inequity and vulnerability
31st Jan 2025
The gig economy is a rapidly expanding sector of the labour market globally and is characterised by short-term contracts and freelance assignments.
Passive cooling - A traditional approach that needs much greater uptake
17th Jan 2025
Passive cooling refers to a set of design principles and techniques that utilise natural processes to help maintain comfortable indoor temperatures without the need for active systems.
Rwanda: A Journey of Discovery and Sustainable Progress
4th Dec 2024
Rwanda, like much of Sub-Saharan Africa, faces the dual challenges of food insecurity and climate vulnerability. Rwanda is working tirelessly to build sustainable systems.
Living in a +50°C World - The System Roadmap
3rd Dec 2024
Clean cooling and cold-chain solutions are not being implemented at the required scale on-the-ground in the Global South. What can practically be done to address them?
Community cooling for community services
3rd Dec 2024
We intend to build a first of a kind test and demonstration Community Cooling Hub (CCH) unit at the ACES campus, Kigali.
The rise of electric vehicles and implications for the cold chain
18th Nov 2024
Transport accounts for around a third of global carbon dioxide emissions, with about 3/4 of transport emissions come from road transport.
Keeping cool in the future demands new questions now
30th Oct 2024
Cooling is critical infrastructure essential for food, health, safe places to live and work, and the production and storage of data that defines our modern world.
Improving the resilience of refugee camps to rising temperatures
29th Oct 2024
Ahead of COP29 and the discussions on adaptation, IMechE Fellow Dr Tim Fox outlines solutions to the challenges of adapting refugee camps for improved resilience to extreme heat.
Caught in an unsustainable evaluation trap?
16th Oct 2024
Very few sustainable evaluation methods are designed to produce meaningful evidence of the sustainable consequences of a proposed intervention.
Self-organising virtual models to build cold-chain solutions
9th Oct 2024
Climate change introduces unprecedented uncertainty and ever-greater threats to the resilience of the global food supply chains, particularly in the global South.
Unlocking the Potential of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Cold-Chains
19th Sep 2024
GESI is not just a moral imperative; it is crucial for driving innovation, increasing efficiency, and building resilience in the cold-chain space.
The Cold Economy
1st Jun 2024
Lack of cooling and cold-chain access is a critical development challenge that has significant implications for people’s livelihoods, productivity, health, food, and nutritional security.
Network News
The latest from the global Clean Cooling community
CCN and ACES announce the Festival of Cooling for September 2025
ACES Campus, Rwanda - 22nd to 26th September 2025 The Clean Cooling Network and the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-chain (ACES) are hosting a week-long, public engagement “Festival of Cooling” (Sept 22nd – 26th) at the ACES Campus in Kigali, Rwanda, and via an outreach programme. Through a week of events, panel discussions, demonstrations
Signing moves Haryana Centre of Excellence a step closer to opening
The Haryana-UK Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Crop Post-Harvest Management & Cold-Chain will help farmers get more of their crops to market sustainably.
Events & Webinars
Exclusive lectures and workshops from the Clean Cooling team and partners.
Festival of Cooling
The Clean Cooling Network and the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-chain (ACES) are hosting a week-long, public engagement “Festival of Cooling” at the ACES Campus in Kigali, Rwanda, and via an outreach programme.
