Global Cooling Watch 2023 Keeping it Chill: How to Meet Cooling Demands while Cutting Emissions - Key Messages

United Nations Environment Programme

Global Cooling Watch 2023 Keeping it Chill: How to Meet Cooling Demands while Cutting Emissions - Key Messages

dc.contributor.author	United Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organization	Communications Division
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-05T06:56:32Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-05T06:56:32Z
dc.date.issued	2023-12
dc.description	The document synthesizes evidence on fast-rising global cooling demand and its climate impacts: cooling already uses about one fifth of global electricity, and absent stronger action, cooling emissions could reach 4.4–6.1 Gt CO₂e in 2050, i.e., >10% of projected global emissions. It identifies three priorities — passive cooling, higher efficiency standards, and a faster HFC phase-down — which together can cut over 60% of projected 2050 cooling emissions, enable an additional 3.5 billion people to benefit from cooling, reduce peak power by 1.5–2 TW, and lower end-user electricity bills by ~US$1 trillion in 2050. Passive measures alone could curb 2050 capacity growth by 24%, avoid up to US$3 trillion in new equipment, and cut ~1.3 Gt CO₂e. The document calls for integrated regulation and scaled finance, underpinned by US$22 trillion in life-cycle cost savings, and aligns actions with the Global Cooling Pledge to accelerate adoption.	en
dc.format	pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/44269
dc.language	English
dc.page.number	2 p.
dc.relation.ispartof	Keeping Cool in an Increasingly Hotter World: UNEP Spotlight
dc.rights.accessLevel	Public
dc.subject	cooling
dc.subject	energy efficiency
dc.subject.sdg	SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
dc.subject.sdg	SDG 13 - Climate Action
dc.subject.theme	climate
dc.subject.theme	economics
dc.subject.theme	finance
dc.title	Global Cooling Watch 2023 Keeping it Chill: How to Meet Cooling Demands while Cutting Emissions - Key Messages	en
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dc.type	Policy brief