Chilling Prospects 2022: Ashden's Fair Cooling Fund

The Fair Cooling Fund provided USD 600,000 in grants to seven organizations to develop sustainable cold chain and cool home solutions. These investments unlocked an additional USD 1.37 million and supported projects in India, Ghana, Colombia, Egypt, and Rwanda, focusing on increasing incomes for smallholder farmers and reducing indoor and outdoor temperatures for low-income urban residents.

• Ashden's Fair Cooling Fund invested USD 600,000 across seven organizations, with three focusing on sustainable cold chains and four on cooling homes and streets. This initial funding acted as a catalyst, securing at least USD 1.37 million in additional investment.
• In India, the fund supported Promethean Power Systems' milk chilling services, which helped 1,200 farmers in 2021 increase their incomes by up to 30 percent, and Ecozen Solutions' EcoFrost Mini portable cold storerooms, which also increased incomes by as much as 30 percent.
• The fund supported urban cooling initiatives, including cBalance's work with low-income women in Pune and Bangalore, India, and 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.
• Other regional impacts include the delivery of 45 fridges and freezers to rural businesses in Ghana by PEG Africa, the development of green guidelines for a rural development programme covering 4,500 villages and towns in Egypt via Econsult, and the refinement of locally appropriate cool home solutions by MASS Design in Rwanda.

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} }