U.K. Government Delays HFC Phasedown Reform

U.K. Government Delays HFC Phasedown Reform

After receiving industry input, the U.K.’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has announced that it will delay implementing changes to the country’s HFC phasedown schedule. The proposed changes, which were open for public comment from November 5 to December 17, 2025, were intended to address shortcomings in the U.K.’s HFC phase-out commitments.  Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com. [https://naturalrefrigerants.com/news/u-k-government-delays-hfc-phasedown-reform/]

Elemental Impact’s Data Center Innovation Initiative Will Provide Up to $5 Million in Funding for Cooling Tech That Reduces Energy and Water Use

Elemental Impact, a nonprofit that invests in climate tech, has launched [https://elementalimpact.com/dcii-press-release/] the Data Center Innovation Initiative (DCII), with up to $5 million (€4.3 million) in funding available to companies developing “novel industrial cooling solutions to reduce energy and water use.” Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com [https://naturalrefrigerants.com/news/elemental-impacts-data-center-innovation-initiative-will-provide-up-to-5-million-in-funding-for-cooling-tech-that-reduces-energy-and-water-use/]

ALDI Tops the EIA’s 2026 U.S. Climate-Friendly Supermarket Scorecard

ALDI achieved the highest score [https://eia.org/press-releases/food-price-affordability-no-barrier-to-first-place-on-climate-friendly-supermarket-scorecard/] among 16 U.S. food retailers in the Environmental Investigation Agency’s (EIA) 2026 Climate-Friendly Supermarkets Scorecard, which evaluates the progress supermarkets are making in phasing out HFCs from their refrigeration systems.  Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com [https://naturalrefrigerants.com/news/aldi-tops-the-eias-2026-u-s-climate-friendly-supermarket-scorecard/]

Part 1: Inside Jaeggi’s Data Center Cooling Business and the Opportunity It Sees in Australia

Jaeggi is a Swiss manufacturer of dry coolers and gas condensers, founded in 1929 in Berne. The company began producing finned heat exchangers for refrigeration systems in 1934 and later developed hybrid dry cooling technology, introducing its HTK hybrid dry cooler in 1988 and patenting the innovation in 1992. Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com [https://naturalrefrigerants.com/news/part-1-inside-jaeggis-data-center-cooling-business-and-the-opportunity-it-sees-in-australia/]

ATMO America: Experts Chart Path for Natural Refrigerants in HVAC

A diverse panel of HVAC experts, who are helping to chart a path for natural refrigerants like CO2 (R744) and propane (R290) to be used in HVAC applications in the U.S., described their approaches at the ATMOsphere (ATMO) America 2026, held June 2–3 in Tarrytown, New York. (ATMOsphere is the publisher of NaturalRefrigerants.com.) Read the full story on NaturalRefrigerants.com. [https://naturalrefrigerants.com/news/atmo-america-experts-chart-path-for-natural-refrigerants-in-hvac/]