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SEforALL
UNEP Event
Be bold: sustainable cooling for all
11 November 2021
Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Overview
- Agenda
Date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 Time: 14:00-14:45 GMT Running Time: 45 mins
Location: SEforALL Pavilion, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Organizers: Sustainable Energy for All Initiative, UNEP-led Cool Coalition
Link: https://webapp.spotme.com/welcome/secaa21
Context: In a warming world, meeting our climate change and sustainable development goals can’t be achieved without It means providing affordable, clean and climate friendly cooling solutions to address the needs of the most vulnerable. This includes technologies, services, policies and financial solutions that can cool a city, building and transport.
Delivering them systematically, and on a needs-driven basis can lower the energy demand and emissions for cooling while protecting people from heat, safeguarding their COVID-19 vaccine, and keeping food nutritious from farm to fork. This side event will target policymakers and solution providers that are able to support increasing access to cooling through affordable, clean and climate friendly cooling solutions.
Welcoming Remarks: Brian Dean, Head of Energy Efficiency and Cooling, SEforALL (event moderator)
Keynote: Sustainable Cooling Solutions for All Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, Co-Chair of UN-Energy
Keynote: Keeping it Cool: From the Climate Action Summit, to COP26 and beyond Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (TBC)
Panel Discussion:
- Demetrios Papathanasiou, Global Director, World Bank Energy Global Practice
- Kathy Baughman McLeod, Sr. Vice President & Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, The Atlantic Council
- Kofi Agyarko, Director, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency & Climate Change, Energy Commission, Ghana
- Kavita Sinha, Deputy Director of Mitigation and Adaptation, Green Climate Fund
- Ashley Woodcock, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Co-Chair to the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel to the Montreal Protocol, OBE
Wrap up - Wrap-up: Isn’t it cool? Brian Dean, Head of Energy Efficiency and Cooling, SEforALL
