Objectives
- Convene leading experts working on cooling metrics, data, and tracking to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange.
- Harmonize methodologies and terminology across the cooling sector to enable comparability and convergence.
- Compile and assess data sources, assumptions, and estimation approaches used to quantify sustainable cooling progress.
- Define and align indicators and proxy metrics that support transparent and consistent monitoring of Global Cooling Pledge progress.
Outputs
- A harmonized set of methodologies for categorizing and analyzing cooling data.
- A repository of shared assumptions and datasets to support aligned estimations.
- Agreed indicators and proxy metrics for measuring sustainable cooling outcomes.
- Technical input to the development of the Global Cooling Watch Report and Global Cooling Pledge monitoring system.
Co-Chairs
- International Institute of Refrigeration
- United Kingdom Government Department of Energy Security and Net-Zero
Facilitator: Liwayway Adkins, [email protected]