Events

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment of the UAE and the EU GCC Clean Energy Technology Network in partnership with the University of Birmingham and the Heriot-Watt University are organising a two days EU -GCC event on , on 9-10 April in the UAE. (venue - location to be provided by the ministry and confirmed soon)

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Workshop objectives

To develop new ideas and methods to address the cooling challenges of the region, this “clean cooling” workshop is organised with in-country partners and key stakeholders (government, industry, energy users, academia and government) from the UAE, the GCC and the EU to better understand the opportunities linked to integrated, low-carbon, low emissions cooling systems and how to accelerate their deployment. Findings and recommendations will help shape thinking in-country as well as feed into the first ever International Clean Cooling Congress to be held at the University of Birmingham in April (18th and 19th).

The workshop intends to provide an overview of relevant best practices and technologies from the EU and the UAE/GCC. The aim is to use the workshop as a catalyst to create dialogue and new EU GCC academic and industry collaborations to share knowledge; build capacity, underpin and galvanise novel “clean cooling” technology demonstration and advancement opportunities around the local and global challenge of sustainable cooling. In so doing, it will build on existing leadership and expertise in energy and specifically cooling across the two markets (UAE/GCC and EU) at a unique time where delivering clean, sustainable cooling is being recognised globally as key to our energy and environmental challenges.

To stimulate the discussion, experts will present novel system level thinking as well as examples of a radical novel technologies for meeting both built environment and transport cooling demands.

Our objectives from the event would include clear recommendations and next steps to

• develop new sustainable, integrated system approaches to cooling (built environment but also the major demand of cooling in transport);
• demonstrate and integrate emerging and existing technologies;
• deliver solutions into the region;
• identify and develop new technologies for local markets and global application.

The first day of the event will be a workshop whole the second day will include a (by invitation only) focus group expert discussion