On 31 January 2022, Rwanda’s Ministry of Environment through the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) launched the Rwanda Cooling Initiative’s Green On-Wage (R-COOL GO) financing mechanism – through which environmentally friendly refrigerators and air conditioners will be more widely accessible and affordable in Rwanda.
Eligible salaried employees from the public and private sectors may request loans from participating banks to purchase new cooling appliances that meet strict performance criteria set by the Ministry of Environment through REMA, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme United for Efficiency team and the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE).
Recordings of the presentations from the launch in Kigali are available to watch on the R-COOL GO YouTube channel and you can read more in our news article.