International team of scientists finds 2025 warming reached 1.37 degrees C, with the 1.5 degrees C threshold expected to be crossed in around four years

Posted: June 11, 2026

In an interaction with Surendar Balakrishnan of Climate Control Middle East, Ehab Ibrahim, Managing Director at Meinhardt MENA, discusses the engineering responses needed as data centres place growing pressure on energy systems. With data centres consuming about 1.5% of global energy, demand expected to more than double by 2030, and nearly 80% of an estimated 12,000 facilities worldwide still relying on air cooling, Ibrahim points to integrated design and hybrid cooling strategies as key aspects to improving efficiency, reliability and long-term flexibility. Excerpts from the interview…

Posted: April 28, 2026

Saying that energy-labelling programmes are the most effective and economical means of transmitting information, Dalip Singh adds that information helps people make more efficient choices in what they buy and how they use energy

Posted: July 2, 2024

Some 7-8 years ago, I spoke at the Climate Control Awards ceremony on the threat lying embedded in Siberian permafrost – of how ancient viruses of unfathomable potency and with the ability to spread rapidly have been lying dormant in the ice and could be unleashed if global warming thaws the ground that has been […]

Posted: December 5, 2023

As we find ourselves in the midst of negotiations in COP28, would we have been better off taking a page out of the 35th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer?

Posted: November 28, 2023

In this year of COP28, scheduled to take place in the last quarter, in the UAE, it is but only natural that we focus abundantly on the recent iterative history, personalities and the sub-events planned in the lead-up to the mega-event. This intense focus is essential for understanding the expected direction, context, front-channelling and back-channelling […]

Posted: March 12, 2023

David Budzinski, Vice President and General Manager, Residential and Light Commercial, Johnson Controls, analyses the top HVAC trends shaping the future of the industry in the United States

Posted: December 7, 2022

François Boueri, Vice President, AHRI MENA, delves into the world of Operational Carbon and Embodied Carbon and elaborates on strategies and measures that could be adopted to lower the two

Posted: December 5, 2022

One of the advantages of running a magazine for long is the vast volume of historical data available. In 2016, we ran a cover story on perhaps one of the most significant interventions in improving not only energy efficiency and Indoor Air Quality but also in preserving equipment health – plugging leaky ductwork. The basis […]

Posted: September 25, 2022

One of the persons I regularly touch base with is Raphael Khlat, President of Faisal Jassim Trading Company, and he is a fount of insights, having literally seen it all over the years as a manufacturer and channel partner. Raphael was one of those I interviewed for this issue’s cover story on pricing, a topic […]

Posted: August 22, 2022