Launching of the ROCA project for sustainable cooling in francophone African countries

From 2021 to 2024, the ROCA project aims to promote sustainable and energy-efficient cooling in four French-speaking African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali and Senegal.
 
The African air-conditioning market has been steadily growing. According to CLASP (the Collaborative Labelling and Appliance Standards Programme), Africa’s market for new split room air conditioners has grown at about 5% annually since 2016. In 2018, the market size for room air conditioners (RAC) in Africa was estimated at about 2.8 million units. [1] In 2021, JARN estimated the size of the African RAC market to be 3.34 million units.