RT Report
T1 Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 International Energy Agency, 
A2 Andersen, Stephen
A2 Bandarra, Enio
A2 Bhushan, Chandra
A2 Borgford-Parnell, Nathan
A2 Chen, Zhuolun
A2 Christensen, John
A2 Devotta, Sukumar
A2 Lal Dhasan, Mohan
A2 Dreyfus, Gabrielle
A2 Dulac, John
A2 Elassaad, Bassam
A2 Fahey, David
A2 Gallagher, Glenn
A2 Höglund-Isaksson, Lena
A2 Hu, Jianxin
A2 Lane, Kevin
A2 Mangotra, Karan
A2 Masson, Nina
A2 Oppelt, Dietram
A2 Peters, Toby
A2 McMahon, Jim
A2 Picolotti, Romina
A2 Purohit, Pallav
A2 Schaeffer, Michiel
A2 Shah, Nihar
A2 Gonzalez, Marco
A2 Siderius, Hans-Paul
A2 Jiang, Yi
A2 Wei, Max
A2 de Ona, Alvaro
A2 Xu, Yangyang
K1 hydrofluorocarbon
K1 cooling
K1 climate change
K1 carbon
K1 air-conditioning
K1 energy efficiency
K1 air quality
SN 978-92-807-3778-3
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/33094
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/33094
NO United Nations Environment Programme and International Energy Agency (2020). Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report. UNEP, Nairobi and IEA, Paris
NO Action under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Destroy the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol) will phase-down the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and could avoid up to 0.4°C of global warming by 2100. In a warming world, prosperity and civilization depend more on access to cooling.The growing demand for cooling will contribute significantly to climate change. This is from both the emissions of HFCs and other refrigerants and CO2 and black carbon emissions from the mostly fossil fuel-based energy powering air conditioners and other cooling equipment. These emissions are particularly dominant during periods of peak power demand, which are increasingly determined by demand for air conditioning. As the climate warms, the growing demand for cooling is creating more warming in a destructive feedback loop. By combining energy efficiency improvements with the transition away from super-polluting refrigerants, the world could avoid cumulative greenhouse gas emissions of up to 210-460 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) over the next four decades, depending on future rates of decarbonisation. This is roughly equal to 4-8 years of total annual global greenhouse gas emissions, based on 2018 levels.
NO https://www.unep.org/resources/report/cooling-emissions-and-policy-synthesis-report
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Nov 4, 2026