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Global Cooling Watch 2023
The Global Cooling Watch report demonstrates the potential and the pathways to achieve near-zero emissions from cooling. Using a model created specifically for this report, it presents pathways to get to near-zero emissions in the key cooling sectors and provides a call to action for countries to pursue the policies and strategies that have the greatest impact in reducing cooling-related emissions and advancing sustainable cooling for all.
The Global Cooling Watch report, Keeping it Chill: How to meet cooling demands while cutting emissions – by the UN Environment Programme-led Cool Coalition – lays out sustainable cooling measures in three areas: passive cooling, higher-energy efficiency standards, and a faster phase down of climate-warming refrigerants. The report is released in support of the Global Cooling Pledge, a joint initiative between the United Arab Emirates as host of COP28 and the Cool Coalition.
Further Resources
- Full report
- Annexes
- Key Messages - Arabic
- Key Messages - Chinese
- Key Messages - English
- Key Messages - French
- Key Messages - Kiswahili
- Key Messages - Portuguese
- Key Messages - Russian
- Key Messages - Spanish
- Press release: Key measures could slash predicted 2050 emissions from cooling sector
- Speech: Keeping it chill: How to meet cooling demands while cutting emissions
- Event: Launch of Global Cooling Watch Report
- Launch of Global Cooling Pledge
- Global Cooling Pledge
UNEP’s Global Cooling Watch 2023: Keeping it Chill
If the measures highlighted in the Global Cooling Watch 2023 : Keeping it Chill Report are adequately implemented, we can keep the heat off in a warming world.
Five ways cities can keep it chill while cutting emissions
The release of the Global Cooling Watch Report 2023: Keeping it chill highlights the importance of passive cooling alternatives to energy-hungry air conditioners.
The report, produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), points out that between now and 2050 the global installed capacity of cooling equipment will triple, resulting in a more than doubling of electricity consumption.
Why countries are contemplating a “cooling pledge” at the UN climate conference
When leaders gather this week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) they will be urged to sign a pact to broaden access to a range of sustainable cooling services and technologies, a push that comes with 2023 poised to become the hottest year on record.
