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Take a look at some of our By Degrees articles, which will help to understand our positioning of the conference and what we aim to achieve from this collaborative, multi-stakeholder event.

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Equitable and inclusive cold-chains – putting the vision into practice

25th Sep 2025

The key question we have laid down at CCN is: "How do we unlock Africa’s agricultural potential to feed itself and the world whilst also economically empowering smallholder farmers and making them climate-resilient … all without using diesel?"

Refrigeration Critical Infrastructure GESI One Health
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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?

A Cool World 2025 Cold-chain Global south System roadmap
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Future proofing and policy

Setting the right policy agenda now will help future-proof cooling as critical infrastructure in the Global South.

Community

Working with our farmers and local communities to unlock Africa’s agricultural potential to feed itself and the world, whilst also economically empowering smallholder farmers and making them climate-resilient.

Technology and training

It is vital to develop the core skills in country, with the best technologies.

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Join us at our next conference

Sustainable Cold-Chain for the Global South, Birmingham, UK

  • Participate in discussions and workshops
  • Network with industry experts, academics, NGOs and more
  • Discuss steps to accelerate meaningful change
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By Degrees discussions

By Degrees Magazine 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.

In a By Degrees article, A Cool World: Accelerating the journey to Sustainable Cold-Chain for the Global South, Dr Tim Fox explores the importance of clean cooling solutions, the barriers to progress and the roadmap to a cool world - also to be explored at our upcoming conference: Sustainable Cold-Chain for the Global South.

In another By Degrees article, Building Africa’s Resilience through Cold-Chain Training for Global Health, ACES’s One Health team, Jean Pierre Musabyimana, Hugor Shema and Ariane Mutabaruka discuss how the cold-chain is the silent backbone to global health, and how its failure can mean the difference between life and death. This is one of the plenary topics to be discussed at the Sustainable Cold-Chain for the Global South conference too.

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Lots of fun and some life-changing conversations – ACES Festival of Cooling

We are celebrating the role cooling plays in our lives, increasing the visibility of cold-chains to the public eye, inspiring Africa’s next generation to be part of the continent’s cooling transformation, and engaging farmers, innovators and entrepreneurs...

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