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With 'Picture of the Week' we aim to show what's really happening on the ground, in day-to-day life across The Programme.
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Minute-by-minute coverage of what's happening across the Clean Cooling Network.
ACES has become officially F-Gas Registered
21st Jan 2026
ACES has become officially F-Gas Registered, receiving the F-Gas Certificate is a major step forward for ACES. It confirms that our systems, equipment and technical practices meet internationally recognised standards.
ACES & RBC sign MoU on vaccine security and cold-chains in Rwanda
19th Jan 2026
The Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) and the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain (ACES) have signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen sustainable vaccine security and critical cold-chain systems in Rwanda.
Picture of the Week
Latest Pictures
With a range of photographers "shooting" for the Clean Cooling Network, we bring you The Programme in full view.
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Picture of the week: Images of renewal9th Jan 2026 - Chris de Bode Photography -
Picture of the Week: Chris de Bode reflects on 202519th Dec 2025 - Photography ACES Academic Birmingham University A Cool World 2025 Festival of Cooling -
Picture of the week: Portrait of Clarisse Mukandayambaje12th Dec 2025 -
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Picture of the week: The ACES Team28th Nov 2025
By Degrees
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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“Cold-chain is like the air we breathe”
When Dr Jean Pierre Musabyimana says with a smile that he “grew up alongside the healthcare system in Rwanda”, he really means it. His words are true in an obvious sense: the past three decades have seen dramatic improvements in Rwanda’s healthcare system.
Latest discussion & opinion
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“Cold-chain is like the air we breathe”22nd Jan 2026 - Raphael Henry One Health Vaccines ACES Training -
ACES - A review of 202518th Dec 2025 - Prof. Toby Peters Community One Health Vaccines Training Festival of Cooling Kenya SPOKE CCN Team Kenya ACES Rwanda -
"On the right track": Zachary Kibiri on the successes and struggles of the Lari Cooperative3rd Dec 2025 - Value Addition ACES Climate change Kenya SPOKE ACTS Farmers Cold-chain Logistics Finance & Business Models -
"I’m very excited to be part of this movement": Head of Research, Jean Baptiste Ndahetuye, on five years at ACES1st Dec 2025 - A Day in the Life System Design & Modelling Finance & Business Models Capacity Building & Training Policymakers Engineers Farmers Community Community Cooling Hub Cold-chain Climate change ACES
