Beat the heat: cool cities for a cooler future

Date: Wednesday 3 November 2021      Time: 12:30-13:00 pm GMT     Running Time: 30 mins

Location: Nordic Pavilion, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Hosted By: UNEP-led Cool Coalition, with support by the Clean Cooling Collaborative, RMI, Mission Innovation and the Global Covenant of Mayors

Official Launch of the Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities.

Link: https://www.wedonthavetime.org/event/cop26#nov3 

Context: Cities are the places where humanity’s greatest challenges impact the most people. This is increasingly the case for climate change: the world’s cities are heating up at twice the global average rate due to urban heat island effect. By the end of this century, many cities could warm as much as 4 °C if GHG emissions continue at high levels.Without intervention, this rising heat will have catastrophic impacts on the health, comfort and resilience of all urban communities. 

To counter urban heat and its effects, cities need to urgently adopt strategies to reduce heat at urban scale and cooling needs in buildings, serve cooling needs in sustainable and efficient ways. This session will showcase tools and solutions cities can use to tackle urban heat in sustainable and comprehensive ways, to protect the people and the planet alike.

The Cool Coalition and partners will launch the Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities, a new tool that provides actionable guidance for cities to organize and prioritize action towards sustainable and equitable urban cooling.