TechEmerge Sustainable Cooling Temperature-Controlled Logistics Africa

In Africa, cooling is essential to safely deliver perishable products to markets, to protect life-saving vaccines from spoiling, for economic development, and much more. The region needs low-cost, energy-efficient cooling innovations, particularly temperature-controlled logistics (TCL), but conventional technologies use large amounts of energy and emit significant greenhouse gases, so solutions must be climate-smart as well.

TechEmerge brings together some of the world’s most promising innovators and leading companies in Africa to pilot and scale sustainable TCL solutions for agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and retail/commercial operations. The program supports field-tests in Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Madagascar, and Uganda. In addition, it will facilitate pilots with the Africa Center of Excellence for Cooling and Cold-chains (ACES), which is supported by the governments of the United Kingdom and Rwanda.