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Loblaw, Canada’s leading retailer, has opened the country’s first superstore using a secondary CO2 system for low temperature refrigeration and space heating. The company and governmental partners are sure that the energy-efficient store will “change the face of Canadian grocery retail.”

A new report from global experts finds that developing countries can leapfrog from ozone-depleting HCFCs and CFCs to natural refrigerants (CO2, ammonia, hydrocarbons etc.) in industrial refrigeration and supermarkets. This would help emerging economies and would save the planet high global warming gases.