Publications

Research and reporting from Clean Cooling's international group of academics and experts

Significant publications, papers and reports from the CCN academic teams, covering a wide variety of cooling and cold-chain topics.

Following in-depth research and discovery we offer you a range of reports on cooling as critical infrastructure, climate change adaptation measures and much more to help understand the cooling strategies and systems needed to maintain vital societal functions.

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CCN Annual Review: June 2025

20th Jun 2025

This has been a pivotal year for the Sustainable Cooling and Cold-chain Solutions Programme. Activities have transitioned from the design and development of core facilities, tools, training, and content to ramped-up implementation through delivery of training courses, demonstration, testing, and roll-out of activities through the Clean Cooling Network (CCN), serving as the umbrella brand.

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Simulation-Based Optimization for Large-Scale Perishable Agri-Food Cold Chain

24th Jan 2025

The global food supply chain faces significant challenges in maintaining quality and safety of perishable agri-food products. This study introduces a novel approach to demonstrate the efficiency of using the perishable agri-food cold supply chain.

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ACES Annual Review: March 2024

25th Jul 2024

In less than four years, we have progressed rapidly from conceptualisation to the realisation of a physical campus in Kigali, the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-chain (ACES).

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Cooling is critical infrastructure for tackling climate change impact

18th Jul 2024

Governments and policy makers must recognise cooling as critical national infrastructure (CNI) if humanity is to build resilience to the impact of climate change, according to a new report.

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The Hot Reality: Living in a +50°C World

16th Jul 2024

The Hot Reality: Living in a +50°C World (published 18th July) calls for a radical shift in policy to create more ambitious strategies for delivering cooling and effectively managing energy use and achieving reductions in cooling demand.

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Measles Vaccine Coverage and Disease Outbreaks

8th May 2024

We aimed to evaluate changes to measles-containing vaccine (MCV) provision and subsequent measles disease cases in low- and lower-middle income countries (LICs, LMICs) in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cold Chain Report 23: Energy Tech Will Have Greatest Influence On UK Cold Chain’s Next 10 Years

25th Mar 2024

Cold chain professionals say energy management technologies will have more influence over temperature-controlled logistics in the coming decade than automation, blockchain or changes to demand for cold chain products.

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Cooling is Critical Infrastructure

25th Mar 2024

The European Commission defines ‘Critical Infrastructure’ as an asset or system which is essential for the maintenance of vital societal functions.

Network News

The latest from the global Clean Cooling community

Innovation in Postgraduate Education – The Africa Center of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold-Chain’s...

The higher education sector is undergoing rapid changes as the need for access to learning opportunities has never been greater, new skill sets are required to support the technologies and challenges of the future, and mechanisms for engaging students...

Launch of the First Clean Cooling Academy online course

The new e-learning course, “Essentials in Cold-Chain Systems”, has been jointly developed by experts from CCN/ACES and the University of Birmingham, London South Bank, and Cranfield University.

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Events & Webinars

Exclusive lectures and workshops from the Clean Cooling team and partners.

Conference - A Cool World

Clean cooling and cold-chain systems are pivotal to sustainable development, food and health security, and economic prosperity - particularly in the Global South. Yet, despite the critical urgency, clean cooling and cold-chain solutions are neither being financed nor implemented at the required scale or in a holistic and inclusive manner on-the-ground. What barriers are holding back progress, a

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