Chilling Prospects 2022: Ashden's Fair Cooling Fund

The report describes the outcomes of Ashden's Fair Cooling Fund, a grant-making initiative supported by the Clean Cooling Collaborative. The fund provided USD 600,000 to seven organizations to develop sustainable cooling solutions for marginalized communities, focusing on cold chain access and cooling for homes and streets.

• Ashden's Fair Cooling Fund distributed a total of USD 600,000 among seven organizations globally, with three focusing on sustainable cold chain solutions and four on cooling homes and streets. These grants helped unlock at least USD 1.37 million in additional investment.
• In India, Promethean Power Systems implemented milk chilling and collection services for smallholder farmers in remote villages, which supported 1,200 farmers in 2021 and increased their incomes by up to 30 percent.
• Ecozen Solutions used fund support to develop the EcoFrost Mini, a portable, leasable cold storeroom for smallholder farmers in remote areas, which has increased incomes by as much as 30 percent.
• The fund supported various urban and residential cooling projects, including the delivery of 45 fridges and freezers to rural Ghana by PEG Africa, and the co-design of sustainable housing solutions for low-income women in Pune and Bangalore, India, by cBalance.
• The fund enabled the expansion of Medellín's Green Corridors Project—which lowered temperatures by an average of 4.5 Celsius—into a pilot scheme in Barranquilla, Colombia. In Egypt, Econsult used a USD 40,000 grant to develop green guidelines for a government rural development programme targeting 4,500 villages and small towns.

APA

Sustainable Energy for All (2022). Chilling Prospects 2022: Ashden's Fair Cooling Fund. https://www.seforall.org/data-stories/ashden-fair-cooling-fund

Chicago

Sustainable Energy for All. Chilling Prospects 2022: Ashden's Fair Cooling Fund. 2022. https://www.seforall.org/data-stories/ashden-fair-cooling-fund.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{sustainableenergyforall2022chilling, author = {{Sustainable Energy for All}}, title = {{Chilling Prospects 2022: Ashden's Fair Cooling Fund}}, institution = {Sustainable Energy for All}, year = {2022}, month = jun, url = {https://www.seforall.org/data-stories/ashden-fair-cooling-fund}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }