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UNEP and partners launch India Cold Chain Programme
Led by the UN Environment Programme under the framework of the Cool Coalition, the India Cold Chain Programme is being launched today with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare ...

Danfoss and Salling Group team up with Microsoft to reduce food loss and energy usage in retail refrigeration
Starting from 2023, Danfoss A/S and Salling Group have announced a collaboration together with Microsoft to empower sustainable food retail through digitization. Salling Group aims to create a carbon-neutral business ...

Partners announce new ambition on sustainable cooling for COP28
Sustainable approaches to cooling critical to tackle climate change. Meeting cooling needs sustainably can help over 1 billion people adapt to climate change and reduce costs of the energy transition ...

UN says ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066
DENVER (AP) — Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United ...

Cooling emerging as key focus area
Cambodia has recently announced its new National Cooling Action Plan, the first to be developed in South-East Asia. The National Cooling Action Plan Methodology was jointly developed by ESCAP, in ...

UNEP and UNFAO launch cold chain report at COP27
On 12 November 2022, during the 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ...
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COP15 – Greener cities, cooler planet, healthier people: unleashing the power of urban nature
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