Organizers: Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the United Nations Environment Programme Cool Coalition with support from Sustainable Energy for All and the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)
Description:
2023 saw the warmest year on record with many countries experiencing extreme temperatures and increased uptake of inefficient cooling solutions across a range of sectors.
At COP28, countries identified opportunities to work together to tackle these issues and reduce worldwide emissions from cooling. Countries identified a range of accelerated and coordinated measures including improving efficiency, utilizing passive cooling, and a commitment to support collaborative innovation and deployment activities at the local and international level.
This high-level dialogue will discuss a new initiative to develop and launch a CEM/MI joint workstream on sustainable cooling to consolidate innovation and deployment efforts, build a robust evidence base, and accelerate the global adoption of efficient cooling solutions. This workstream would foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing to tackle critical challenges in the cooling sector as well as support the implementation of energy and innovation targets of the Global Cooling Pledge. The discussion will also highlight the need for South-South cooperation and address concrete modalities to mobilise climate finance, to accelerate the uptake of highly efficient innovative cooling solutions, through inclusive approaches that leave no one behind.
Objectives:
This high-level ministerial dialogue aims to foster cooperation on:
- Pathways for increasing sustainable cooling in NDCs to boost climate ambition
- Implementation of 2024 G20 Ministerial statement and outcomes
- Implementation of the Global Cooling Pledge Energy and Innovation targets.
- Deployment of super-efficient ACs prototyped under 5X cooling challenge by the winners for the Global cooling prize
- Uptake of funding and investment models to encourage replication of highly efficient innovative cooling solutions in Global South while ensuring inclusive approaches.
