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Efficient Cooling in Dominican Republic: Cooling as a Service (CAAS)
This initiative introduces a pay-for-use model (Cooling as a Service, CaaS) to make energy-efficient, climate-friendly air conditioning systems more accessible in the Dominican Republic. Under this model, the customer (for example hotel operators) pays for the cooling service rather than buying, operating, and maintaining the AC equipment themselves. The service provider assumes the investment, regular maintenance, operations, and monitoring. The contract is structured so that the cost to the customer is fixed over the term, helping to avoid upfront costs and reducing performance risk. This resource highlights the roles of public sector agencies, equipment providers, finance partners, and stakeholders from the tourism sector for rolling out such models. It shows how policy, regulatory settings (standards, labels), financial innovation, and demand-side engagement combine to unlock energy savings, reduce load on the electricity grid, lower emissions, and ensure cost savings for users.
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Energy -Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling in Nigeria
The energy -efficient and climate-friendly cooling project is a national programme in Nigeria aiming to accelerate the transition to more energy-efficient air conditioners (ACs) and lower-GWP refrigerants across residential, commercial, and public buildings. It supports the government in revising Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and labelling, strengthening monitoring, verification and enforcement practices, and embedding cooling-related actions into Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The fact sheet also lays out expected benefits by 2040; including large electricity savings (≈ 15 TWh/year), avoidance of fossil-fuel-based power plant investments, annual CO₂ emissions reductions (≈ 9.8 million tonnes), and significant savings in electricity costs, showing what gains are possible if ambitious efficiency and refrigerant targets are met. This resource helps policy makers, regulatory agencies, standards authorities, and implementers understand what specific actions can be prioritized, what impacts to expect, and how cooling efficiency links with climate commitments.
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Energy Labelling Guidance for Lighting and Appliances
The Energy Labelling Guidance for Lighting and Appliances supports governments in developing or strengthening energy labelling programmes for lighting and appliances, drawing on more than a decade of global experience. It explains how to design effective and easy-to-understand labels, establish labelling thresholds using U4E’s three-tier efficiency model, and integrate labelling with broader regulatory or market transformation initiatives. By providing practical advice on label categories, design features, and implementation strategies, the guidance helps countries raise consumer awareness, drive demand for efficient products, and align national efforts with international best practices.
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Energy Technology Perspectives 2024
The Energy Technology Perspectives 2024 (ETP-2024) is the IEA's flagship analytical report, focusing on the evolving landscape of clean energy technology manufacturing and trade. It provides in-depth analysis based on new data, industry surveys, and bottom-up modeling approaches. The report examines the connections between energy, trade, manufacturing, and climate, offering insights into developing secure and resilient supply chains for key clean energy technologies such as solar PV, wind turbines, electric vehicles, batteries, electrolysers, and heat pumps.
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Ensuring Compliance with MEPS and Energy Labels
This guide helps manufacturers, importers and regulatory officials ensure that products meet energy performance standards (MEPS) and energy labelling requirements. It focuses especially on air conditioners and refrigerating appliances but the principles are applicable to other equipment. The guide outlines approaches for market surveillance, testing, verification, import controls, and enforcement so that MEPS and labels deliver real energy savings. It covers what suppliers need to do, what officials should check, and how to build reliable systems of compliance to avoid non-compliant products undermining efficiency goals.
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Global Cooling Pledge Progress Report 2024
Report assessing progress toward the Global Cooling Pledge's three primary aims: reducing cooling-related emissions by 68% by 2050, increasing sustainable cooling access, and improving new air conditioner efficiency by 50%. It is based on data collected from signatory countries, sub-national entities, and non-state actors between August and October 2024, utilizing a questionnaire developed in collaboration with the UNEP Cool Coalition.
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Global Cooling Watch 2023
The Global Cooling Watch is UNEP's biennial publication on sustainable cooling. The inaugural edition on 2023 presents a data-driven roadmap to achieve near-zero emissions from cooling. It models realistic, high-impact pathways across key sectors and lays out three major pillars for action: passive cooling, energy efficiency, and refrigerant transition. Released in support of the Global Cooling Pledge, the report calls on governments to accelerate solutions that reduce emissions and expand access.
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Global Energy and Climate Model
The Global Energy and Climate Model (GEC Model) is a comprehensive modelling framework used by the IEA to produce long-term energy scenarios, including the Stated Policies Scenario (STEPS), Announced Pledges Scenario (APS), and Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario (NZE). The model integrates current and planned policies, technology cost and performance data, socio-economic drivers, and energy demand/supply transformations to explore possible pathways for the global energy system. It helps countries understand implications of policy choices across sectors and gives insight on what kinds of appliance efficiency, cooling demand, refrigerant phase-down, and emissions reductions are feasible under various policy ambitions.
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Global recognition of the importance of nature-based solutions to the impacts of climate change
Highlights the role of nature-based solutions (NbS) in mitigating climate change impacts, which can indirectly contribute to passive cooling through ecosystem restoration, urban greening, and biodiversity conservation. Emphasizes integrating NbS into climate policies and Nationally Determined Contributions.
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Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2024/2025: Not just another brick in the wall
Provides a global overview of progress in the buildings and construction sector, emphasizing building energy codes, materials efficiency, and climate-aligned finance. While passive cooling is not a primary focus, strengthening building codes and promoting net-zero design principles indirectly supports passive cooling adoption.