In this episode I spoke with a student doing work experience at the IOR discussing how their views - and those of their friends - have changed about the sector and careers now they know more about refrigeration air conditioning and heat pumps. We talked about what kind of careers advice young people get at schools, what they think of engineering and what we can do to raise awareness of this sector. If you are not sure about whether you should take on a student for a weeks work experience we hope this podcast will help convince you of how much value they can add!

This is our second podcast recorded live from the COP28 in Dubai in December 2023. This time we talked to two UK experts who are involved in the Africa Centre of Excellence, an international project that is addressing the cold chain and building capacity in Africa. Yosr Allouche of the International Institute of Refrigeration and Judith Evans of London South Bank University tell us why international collaboration is key to addressing climate change and how the ACES project is leading the way in capacity building and engaging all the right people.

For more about the ACES project which is led by the University of Birmingham's Centre for Sustainable Cooling and involves amongst other UK Government DEFRA, LSBU and the International Institute of Refrigeration, see these links mentioned in the podcast

https://coolingafrica.org/

https://www.sustainablecooling.org/

www.ior.org.uk/beyondrefrigeration

In this episode I speak to UK cooling experts at the COP28 meetings in Dubai in 2023. We discussed why cooling is gathering momentum as a key part of global climate change talks, what impact the "Cool COP" and the Global Cooling Pledge signed this year by countries including the UK will have, and explore how asking questions in a different way can give us a new perspective on sustainability. Im joined by Catarina Marques FInstR of LSBU and an IOR Board Trustee and Graeme Maidment and Rachel Steller who have been involved in the initiatives such as Mission Innovation, the Global Cooling Stocktake and Global Cooling Pledge.

Links to some of the items discussed

UK's Transport Industrial and Commercial Refrigeration Net Zero Project led by LSBU www.netzerorefrigeration.uk

The Global Cooling Pledge https://www.unep.org/resources/report/global-cooling-pledge

And you can watch the Global Cooling Pledge launch event held at at COP28 here https://youtu.be/cfjlEUJ2th0?si=xyQiJ0mRUr0ujdbO

Emissions Stocktake https://unfccc.int/topics/global-stocktake

IOR Beyond Refrigeration Environment Initiative www.ior.org.uk/beyondrefrigeration