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Sunday (26 June) is World Refrigeration Day and the theme this year is ‘Cooling Matters’ – so why does cooling matter?

In a year which has seen the real-world consequences of climate catastrophe seldom out of the headlines, the arrival of an efficient, natural refrigerant residential air-con unit on the European market couldn’t be more timely

World Ozone Day: For more than 35 years, the Montreal Protocol has played a crucial role in improving how we keep ourselves, our food and our vaccines cool – but there is still more to be done to put the cooling sector on a sustainable pathway

This Saturday marks the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the legally binding international UN treaty under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Paris agreement aims to strengthen the global response to climate change by keeping global temperature rise this century to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels...

Hydrofluorocarbons (or HFCs for short) are under-recognised in the climate debate – no-one really talks about them yet they are a huge problem for the climate

I’m in Kiev, where an international meeting is looking into the threat posed by the growing criminal trade in climate-wrecking refrigerant gases