Global Cooling Watch 2023 - Keeping it Chill: How to Meet Cooling Demands while Cutting Emissions - Annexes: Technologies primer

The document is supported by twelve annexes that provide the technical evidence, datasets, modelling approaches, and policy references underpinning the main report. These include a primer on cooling technologies; methods for modelling future cooling scenarios; global installed cooling capacity; variables for estimating annual energy consumption; the transition to low-global-warming-potential refrigerants; greenhouse gas emissions from cooling equipment; the Global Cooling Emissions Model; a global cooling policy stocktake survey; a policy primer; a summary of national policies and regulations related to the hydrofluorocarbon phase-down; life-cycle management initiatives for refrigerant gases in selected countries; and examples of commercial applications of natural refrigerants in cold chains, including associated energy savings.