| As we negotiate our lives with the changing climate, our exposure and vulnerability to heat become inevitable. Buildings and space conditioning are primary lines of defence against such events. UNEP-Cool Coalition published the Global Cooling Watch Report that identified accelerated coordinated measures on efficiency and passive cooling and a phase down of greenhouse gases refrigerants, could reduce 2050 cooling emissions by over 60%. The Global Cooling Pledge (GCP) was launched at COP28 with the aim of working together to reduce worldwide emissions from cooling by 68% by 2050. The pledge includes 16 commitments – one is to call on cities to support the pledge. The MI innovation community endeavours to convene industry, R&D stakeholders and policy makers to brainstorm climate change resilient sustainable cooling solutions. This side event will convene stakeholders to deliberate an urban roadmap for sustainable cooling, retrofit interventions, disruptive technologies and passive solutions. The side event will publicise the pledge to non-state governments and will encourage Governments, policy organisations and industry leaders to facilitate support. This important forum will enable knowledge exchange between countries at different levels of preparedness to extreme heat and will identify potential collective actions feeding into a new CEM MI initiative. |
