Cool Coalition

🌍 Exciting News! 🚀 The #GlobalCoolingPledge page is LIVE! 📜 Explore national & subnational pledges, endorsed countries, supporters, and guidelines to join the movement for a cooler, sustainable future. 🌿💙 #ClimateActionNow 🚨 💡 Explore Now: https://lnkd.in/g5WjBSmA 🌐 UN Environment Programme COP28 UAE Clean Cooling Collaborative Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)

🌍 Join Us at the World Urban Forum 12 Egypt #WUF12! 🌡️ Cooling the #Climate #Crisis: Turning the Global Cooling Pledge into Urban Impact 📅 Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 🕐 Time: 13:00 - 14:30 (local time) 📍 Location: Multipurpose Room 9, Egypt International Exhibition Center, Cairo, Egypt As urban communities face the escalating challenges of rising temperatures and heat waves, cities have a crucial role to play in advancing sustainable cooling solutions. This event will explore the commitments outlined in the Global Cooling Pledge, focusing on how both national and sub-national actions can create an enabling environment for effective urban cooling strategies. 🌱 Let’s collaborate to enhance our cities’ resilience against extreme heat and contribute to a sustainable future! Looking forward to seeing you there! Virtual participation made easy, but don’t forget: you must register for #WUF to attend online and participate fully.  🔗 Apple Store: https://t.co/mGeuawbkbU 🔗 Google Play: https://t.co/m36mh7lHnw #CoolingTheClimate #UrbanImpact #SustainableCities #GlobalCoolingPledge

🌍 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🌍 The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) led Cool Coalition is seeking a Passive Cooling Expert to join our efforts in the Asia-Pacific region! If you're passionate about sustainable cooling solutions and have expertise in passive cooling technologies, we want to hear from you! 🔍 Position: Passive Cooling Expert 📍 Based in: Bangkok 🗓️ Application Deadline: November 14, 2024 As a key member of the UNEP Cool Coalition, you will play a vital role in accelerating efforts towards sustainable cooling in region, including delivery of passive cooling guidelines, support to cities to integrate heat resilience and passive cooling into planning and drive building level interventions to mitigate urban heat while mainstreaming sustainable cooling measures like nature based solutions. Your role will involve development of knowledge products and enhanced capacity for various relevant departments of regional governments, state governments, cities, private players, academia and industry to accelerate uptake of sustainable cooling, urban planning interventions for extreme heat mitigation. For more details and to apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/gfffP3du Lily Riahi, Benjamin Hickman, Parimita Mohanty, Manjeet Singh

🌍 Join us tomorrow, October 29th, from 08:30 to 14:00 GMT+1, for a workshop focused on advancing district cooling solutions in #Tunisia! The Agence Nationale pour la Maîtrise de l'Energie ANME, in collaboration with UN Environment Programme's District Energy in Cities Initiative, Politecnico di Milano, and the Cool Coalition, and with support from the Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security, is implementing a comprehensive program for district cooling in Tunisia, including pilot projects. This event supports Tunisia's national targets to reduce energy consumption and transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. In 2023, Tunisia committed to the #GlobalCoolingPledge at #COP28, aiming to enhance energy efficiency in cooling and rapidly phase out climate-warming refrigerants. **Why 'district cooling'?** Cooling and heating currently account for 50% of energy demand in Tunisian buildings, and this is expected to double in the next decade. District cooling offers a sustainable solution, potentially reducing energy consumption by up to 50%. It decreases reliance on imported fossil fuels, lowers greenhouse gas emissions, supports renewable energy integration, and aids in phasing down HFC refrigerants. Let’s come together to discuss the immense potential of district cooling systems and pave the way for a sustainable future! ❄️🌱 Watch the livestream here: https://lnkd.in/gqrFvCAu Benjamin Hickman / Cecilia Erba / Abdelkader BACCOUCHE / Alice Dénarié #CoolCoalition #DistrictCooling #Sustainability #Tunisia #ClimateAction #EnergyEfficiency

🌍 Don’t Miss Our Virtual Workshop Tomorrow! 🌍 Join us for the "Cooling Cities: Action Planning for Extreme Heat" workshop from 13:00-15:30 hrs (CET)!   In partnership with UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme), the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, CEPT University, World Health Organization/ WMO Joint Climate and Health Office, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), National University of Singapore, WRI India, Google, Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Centre, and C40 Cities, the UN Environment Programme Cool Coalition is paving the way for a Global Standard Approach on Urban Heat/Cooling Action Plans. 🚀 Key Speakers Include: Eleni (Lenio) Myrivili, Arun Jacob, PhD, Mirey Atallah, Gulnara Roll, Lily Riahi, Dr.Graeme Maidment FInstR, Prof. Rajan Rawal, CEPT University, Dr. Joy Shumake-Guillemot, DrPH, Sanjaya Bhatia, Dr. Matthias Jaya Dhindaw, Dave Fork, Owen Gow, Amy Buitenhuis, Amanda Mckee, eugenia kargbo, Jane Gilbert, Cuc Nguyen, Maria Buhigas San José, and Tmt. Sudha S, among others. 🌆 Join representatives from cities like Freetown, Miami-Dade, Barcelona, and Tamil Nadu as we discuss actionable insights and innovative solutions to combat extreme heat in urban environments.

🌍🔥 Cities are heating up twice as fast as the global average - so what’s the plan? 🔥🌍 On October 24th, you can join global experts for a deep dive into the future of urban cooling! The Cool Coalition is hosting a workshop on Cooling Cities: Action Planning for Extreme Heat, where we’ll explore innovative solutions to keep cities cool. 📝 Register now to be part of the conversation: https://lnkd.in/dm4MMpkT Let’s turn up the heat on climate action, not on our cities. 🌆💡 Learn more about the UN Secretary General's Call to Action on Extreme Heat: https://lnkd.in/d6SUgc7X #UrbanCooling #HeatResilience #ClimateAction #CoolCoalition Eleni (Lenio) Myrivili Arun Jacob, PhD Lily Riahi

Recap: National Cooling Action Plans - Delivering Climate-Friendly Cooling Access in the MENA Region On September 24th, 2024, UN Environment Programme and Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), under the framework of the Cool Coalition, organized the kick-off event for the Regional programme on National Cooling Action Plans (NCAP) in MENA, held in Tunisia alongside DecarboMed Conference, with support from the Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC).   The event served as a brainstorming platform for stakeholders to discuss a regional approach to delivering sustainable cooling in the #MENA region. It also explored how the regional #NCAP methodology offers a more tailored approach to address the critical need for #sustainable #cooling in the region. The event highlighted the progress of the regional NCAP methodology in addressing the growing demand for cooling in key sectors.   Panellists included representatives from the governments of #Morocco, #Tunisia, and the League of #Arab States and Cool Up, to share insights on how MENA NCAPs can better drive climate-friendly cooling policies and align with national climate strategies, the Global Cooling Pledge, and NDC & KIPs. A special thank you to all participants for their valuable contributions!   #ClimateAction #NCAP #SustainableCooling #MENA #UNEP #CoolingAccess #GlobalCoolingPledge #ClimateResilience #NDCs Cool Up programme

🌍 Join Us for the Virtual Workshop: Cooling Cities - Action Planning for Extreme Heat! ❄️ 🗓️ Date: 24th October 2024 🕐 Time: 13:00 - 15:30 CET In response to the UN Secretary-General’s Call to Action on Extreme Heat, we're bringing together cities, city networks and key stakeholders, to share best practices, measured benefits, implementation challenges, and methodologies adopted for conducting urban heat vulnerability mapping for developing Heat/Cooling action plans. 🌡️ OUTCOMES Learnings from the workshop will contribute to develop a global approach for preparing Urban Heat Vulnerability (UHV) Maps, to be included in development of Urban cooling Action Plans (UCAP). Don't miss a chance to be a part of a global networking platform implementing short, medium, long term heat resilient and sustainable cooling strategies. Register now! https://lnkd.in/g6cWP3RA

🌍 Webinar Alert! 🌍 We're excited to announce an upcoming webinar that dives into the groundbreaking findings of the new "Cooler Finance" report by the IFC - International Finance Corporation and UN Environment Programme. 🌡️The cooling market in developing economies is poised to grow from approximately $300 billion to over $600 billion by 2050! 🌡️Adopting sustainable cooling solutions could lead to more than $8 trillion in avoided costs through reduced electricity bills and lower power infrastructure investments. 🌡️The report highlights significant private investment opportunities in areas like space cooling, refrigeration, cold chains, and transport. 📅 Join us on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, to explore these key insights and discuss the future of sustainable cooling. 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eatSkym4 Let’s work together towards a cooler, more sustainable future! #CoolerFinance #Webinar #Cooling #SustainableDevelopment #IFC #UNEP

🌍 Exciting News from Brazil! 🌍 CEM and MI Members build momentum towards a potential joint workstream on Sustainable Cooling. On October 2, 2024, Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the UN Environment Programme Cool Coalition, with support from Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), organized the high-level dialogue Deploying and Investing in Highly Efficient Innovative Cooling Solutions for All.🌱 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. To address these challenges and opportunities, CEM and MI members discussed the possibility of joint working, which would foster collaboration and knowledge exchange and focus on practical innovation and evidence to support deployment of efficient and innovative solutions to address key challenge sectors for sustainable cooling. Some of these members expressed an interest to continue these discussions in a formal working group. A huge thank you to all the speakers and attendees for their valuable contributions. Together, we can create a cooler, more sustainable future! ❄️ #CoolingSolutions #Sustainability #ClimateAction #Innovation #Collaboration #UNEP #FozdeIguacu https://lnkd.in/gapdfeZ6