26 October 2022
The Cool Coalition goes to COP27

The Cool Coalition Secretariat and partners are hosting and joining multiple events at the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27).

COP27 will take place from the 6th to the 18th of November 2022. COP stands for Conference of the Parties. Parties are the signatories of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – a treaty agreed in 1994 which has 197 Parties (196 countries and the EU). Egypt will host the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, with a view to building on previous successes and paving the way for future ambition. A golden opportunity for all stakeholders to rise to the occasion and tackle effectively the global challenge of climate change facilitated by Egypt on the African continent.

United Nations climate change conferences are among the largest international meetings in the world. The COP27 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

You can follow the Cool Coalition’s collective mobilization and advocacy at COP27 virtually from everywhere you are. A preliminary list of Cool Coalition events is available below.

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Announcement: First Global Ambassador for Heat Action

Date: Wednesday 9th November 2022                   Time: 10:45 am EET                    Location: Resilience Hub

Hosted by: Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center

Learn more here. Register for online event here.

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Cities taking the lead on heat action

Date: Wednesday 9th November 2022                   Time: 08:00 – 08:45 am EET           Running Time: 45 mins

Hosted by: Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center                           Location: Resilience Hub

Learn more here.

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The Cool Capital Stack: Investing in cooling solutions to protect people and their livelihoods

Date: Wednesday 9th November 2022                   Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm EET           Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center                               Location: Resilience Hub

Learn more here. Register for online event here.

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Climate-friendly Energy for Securing Positive Health Outcomes

Date: Wednesday 9th November 2022                   Time: 17:00 – 18:15pm EET           Running Time: 75 mins

Hosted by: World Bank ESMAP                                                                                            Location: WHO Health Pavilion

Learn more here.

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DESIRE CITIES – A New Nordic Approach for Carbon Neutrality in City Energy Systems

Date: Thursday 10th November 2022                   Time: 10:30am – 11:30am EET           Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Center and BloxHub                                                Location: Nordic Pavilion

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Announcement: #ThisIsCool Youth Innovation Challenge Winners

Date: Thursday 10th November 2022                   Time: 11:45am – 12:15pm EET           Running Time: 30 mins

Hosted by: SEforALL                                               Location: SG7 Pavilion

Learn more here. Register for online event here.

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Carbon Neutral Communities: from Urban Planning, Design to Operation

Date: Friday 11th November 2022                   Time: 09:45 – 11:30am EET                Running Time: 105 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Center and Vanke Foundation                         Location: China Pavilion

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Reckitt Event: Healthier Cities, Healthier Lives on the path to Net Zero

Date: Friday 11th November 2022                   Time: 10:45 – 11:30am EET           Running Time: 45 mins

Hosted by: Mission Innovation                         Location: UK Pavilion

Streaming link here.

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District Cooling: A low-carbon solution to cool cities

Date: Friday 11th November 2022                   Time: 13:00 – 14:30 pm EET                        Running Time: 90 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Cool Coalition co-lead with RCREEE                   Location: RCREEE Pavilion – Blue Zone

Context: The goal of the event is to provide a call to action to local and national governments, real-estate developers, investors, and utilities about the urgent need to implement sustainable cooling solutions to decarbonize cities, and raise awareness on available solutions like district cooling. This session will raise awareness about the environmental, social, and economic benefits of district cooling. The session will also showcase the innovative, local and scalable district cooling approaches already being implemented by cities globally and the opportunities for their application in the MENA region.

Learn more here. Register for online event here.

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Exploring Danish Experiences for Sustainable Energy Transition in Developing Countries

Date: Friday 11th November 2022                   Time: 15:30 – 16:30 pm EET                              Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Center and the Danish Energy Agency                         Location: Danish Pavilion

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Banking for net zero: Practical tools for emerging market financial institutions to accelerate decarbonization

Date: Friday 11th November 2022                   Time: 09:00 – 10:00 am EET                                 Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: Cool Up Programme                         Location: RCREEE Pavilion

Learn more here.

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Future of PtX in Chinese Cities: A Review of Past 10 Years and Way Forward

Date: Saturday 12th November 2022                   Time: 11:30am – 12:15 pm EET                                                                               Running Time: 45 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Cente, National Energy Agency (NEA) and Deloitte                   Location: China Pavilion or Green Zone

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Capacity Building: Tools for Passive House, Building Energy Audit and Heat Planning

Date: Saturday 12th November 2022                   Time: 13:00am – 14:00 pm EET           Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Center, DEA and DENA                                           Location: PCCB Capacity Building Pavilion

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Sustainable Cold Chains: The Missing Link for Sustainable Development

Date: Saturday 12th November 2022                   Time: 15:30am – 17:30 pm EET                      Running Time: 120 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Cool Coalition, Government of Italy, FAO                         Location: Italy Pavilion

Context: The session will showcase that acting on a sustainable cold chain offers a multi-faceted win for people and the planet. Sustainable Cold Chain Development calls for cooperation and action at national and international levels to promote sustainable cold chain development. More than 80 parties to the Montreal Protocol have signed the Declaration and other stakeholders are endorsing its principles. Now it is time to move from pledges to specific actions. During the event, the challenges and opportunities for promoting sustainable food cold chain will be highlighted. A joint report of UNEP and FAO developed in the framework of the Cool Coalition and with the support of the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition outlines existing best practices and makes recommendations for governments and industry to accelerate sustainable cold chains development to ensure food security, mitigate of climate change and impacts of foods system.

Learn more here from the Cool Coalition, or here from UNEP.

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Deploying a Broad Portfolio of Technology Solutions to Advance Energy Transition & Decarbonization

Date: Saturday 12th November 2022                   Time: 18:30 – 20:00 pm EET           Running Time: 90 mins

Hosted by: Cool Up Programme – GuideHouse                                                                        Location: Tutankhamun  – E5 Pavilion

Learn more here.

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Shedding light on a blind spot: Leveraging the vast emissions reduction potential of correct disposal of refrigerants to achieve NDCs

Date: Saturday 12th November 2022                   Time: 11:30 am – 13:00 pm EET           Running Time: 90 mins

Hosted by: GIZ, Climate and Ozone Protection Alliance (COPA)                                         Location: IETA Hub

Learn more here.

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Water Efficiency in Buildings: A Must-think Piece for Carbon Neutrality

Date: Monday 14th November 2022                   Time: 10:30 – 11:15 am EET                 Running Time: 45 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Center and DGNB                                                    Location: German Pavilion

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Delivering on the Urban Transition to Net-Zero: Multi-level Partnerships and Innovation to Achieve Systemic Change

Date: Monday 14th November 2022                   Time: 15:00 – 16:00 pm EET                                             Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: Mission Innovation                             Location:UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub Pavilion

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The Clean Heating and Cooling Forum

Date: Monday 14th November 2022                   Time: 16:45 – 18:15 pm EET                                             Running Time: 90 mins

Hosted by: Institut International du Froid (IIF) and European Heat Pump Association (EHPA)                 Location: Tutankhamun

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Advancing Action on Heat Resilience and Climate Friendly Cooling

Date: Monday 14th November 2022                   Time: 17:00 – 18:30 pm EET                                             Running Time: 90 mins

Hosted by: Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MOEFCC), Government of India, UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub and NRDC

Location: UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub Pavilion at Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt.

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Strengthening Action on Resilience to Extreme Heat and Advancing Climate Friendly Cooling

Date: Monday 14th November 2022                   Time: 17:00 – 18:00 pm EET                                             Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: NRDC, MOEFCC, UNFCCC               Location:UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub Pavilion

Learn more here.

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Catalyzing the Sustainable Cooling Shift – Doubling Climate Benefits

Date: Tuesday 15th November 2022                   Time: 10:15 – 11:30 am EET                 Running Time: 75 mins

Hosted by: Cool Up Programme – GuideHouse                                                                          Location:  IsDB Pavilion

Learn more here. Register for online event here.

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Lessons Learnt and Way Forward of Implementing Carbon Neutral District Energy Systems in Cities in Developing Countries

Date: Tuesday 15th November 2022                   Time: 10:15 – 11:30 am EET                   Running Time: 75 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme CCC and Danfoss Foundation                             Location: Danish Pavilion

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‘After Kigali Amendment’ – Towards a National Cooling Plan in Türkiye

Date: Tuesday 15th November 2022                   Time: 13:45 – 14:30 pm EET                       Running Time: 15 mins

Hosted by: Cool Up Programme – GuideHouse                                                                              Location: Turkiye Pavilion

Learn more here.

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Connecting High Efficient Building Energy Systems to District Level for Overall Efficiency

Date: Tuesday 15th November 2022                   Time: 14:00 – 15:00 pm EET                     Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: UN Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Center and DENA                                                         Location: Buildings Pavilion

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Beating the Heat: Accelerating Access to Sustainable Climate Solutions in Cities

Date: Tuesday 15th November 2022                   Time: 13:30 – 16:30 pm EET                     Running Time: 180 mins

Hosted by: UNEP Cool Coalition, RMI, SEforALL, WWF                                                             Location: Buildings Pavilion

Context: Cooling in a warming world has become an adaptation imperative. Countries across the globe have witnessed record high temperatures in 2022. By 2030, heat stress will reduce the world’s GDP by $2.4 trillion. By 2050 between 50%-75% of the global population will be exposed to life-threatening extreme heat and humidity due to climate change. By 2100, cities across the world could warm by 4.4°C, exposing the world’s growing urban population to conditions that will damage human health, productivity, and quality of life. To achieve the goal to Resilience Breakthroughs on human settlements, we need to ensure access to thermal comfort, but we cannot just air condition our way out of the extreme heat challenge. We must take a comprehensive, whole-systems approach to cool cities, without warming the planet. These include establishing policy to provide heat resilient housing, increase access to finance to develop safer homes and cities, establish heat mapping and early warning systems for heatwaves, and leverage nature-based solutions to cool down our urban communities. Solutions exist, but they need to be tailored to local contexts, invested in, and implemented in an accelerated way. This Lab will highlight positive examples of urban cooling approaches to date and enable a discussion on how to scale action between now and 2030 to build resilience to extreme heat in cities across the globe.

Learn more here from the Cool Coalition, or from UNEP.

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Partnerships to Promote Sustainable Energy

Date: Tuesday 15th November 2022                   Time: 14:00 – 15:15 pm EET                     Running Time: 75 mins

Hosted by: UN ESCAP and Energy Foundation China

Location: SDG Pavilion, Main Stage

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Beat the Heat: Nature for Cool Cities Challenge

Date: Wednesday 16th November 2022                   Time: 09:00 – 10:00 am EET                     Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: UNEP Cool Coalition, SEforAll, RMI, WWF, WRI                                                            Location: SEforAll Pavilion

Context: Our cities are getting hotter. Nature can help reduce urban temperatures and increase thermal comfort for urban dwellers. The cooling benefits of nature-based solutions are well documented, but they need to be better understood and leveraged to increase implementation and bring about change at a global level. The “Beat the Heat: Nature for Cool Cities Challenge” seeks to catalyze NbS implementation by asking participants to pledge to increase NbS implementation in their urban areas by 2030 and demonstrate tangible progress by 2024. Participants will be asked to commit to at least one qualitative goal and three implementation actions to back their pledge

Learn more here.

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Greening the Infrastructures in Coastal Cities

Date: Wednesday 16th November 2022                   Time: 10:00 – 11:00 am EET                     Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: Vanke Foundation                                                                                                             Location: China Pavilion 

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Green Energy Park

Date: Wednesday 16th November 2022                   Time: 12:30 – 13:30 pm EET                     Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: Mission Innovation                                   Location: Moroccan Pavilion 

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Sustainable Cooling: A Multipurpose Tool to Deliver on Net-Zero, Adaptation, Food & Energy Security

Date: Wednesday 16th November 2022                   Time: 13:15 – 14:30 pm EET                     Running Time: 75 mins

Hosted by: UNEP Cool Coalition, BASE, Viet Nam                                                                           Location: Viet Nam – Room 6

Context: Cooling is the key to protect communities from rising temperatures, keep food safe, vaccines stable, accelerate the energy transition and get to net-zero. By scaling up sustainable cooling solutions we can deliver on mitigation and adaptation goals, while strengthening food and energy systems. This session will present cooling as a multipurpose tool that support in achieving net zero goals, better adaptation as well as food and energy security.

Learn more here from the Cool Coalition, or here from UNEP.

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SDG7 and Cooling for All: Delivering Solutions at the Last Mile #ThisIsCool

Date: Wednesday 16th November 2022                   Time: 16:30 – 17:30 pm EET                     Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: SEforAll, Carbon Trust, World Bank ESMAP                           Location: SDG7 Pavilion

Learn more here. Register for online event here.

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Roadmap of Carbon-neutral Buildings in Great Bay Zone of China

Date: Thursday 17th November 2022                   Time: 10:30 – 11:30 am EET                     Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: UNEP Copenhagen Climate Center, German Energy Agency (DENA)                                                             Location: Buildings Pavilion

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The Cool Move: Low Carbon Cold Chain & Agro-logistic Revolution for Emerging Markets

Date: Thursday 17th November 2022                   Time: 14:30 – 15:30 pm EET                     Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: Rabobank

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Fast-action Mitigation to Slow Warming in this Decisive Decade

Date: Thursday 17th November 2022                   Time: 15:00 – 16:00 pm EET                               Running Time: 60 mins

Hosted by: WRI, IGSD                                             Location: U.S. Pavilion

Learn more here. Watch online event here.

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The Cool Move: A low carbon cold chain & agro-logistic accelerator program for Africa, at the intersection of food & energy

Date: Thursday 17th November 2022                   Time: 16:30 – 17:15 pm EET                     Running Time: 45 mins

Hosted by: Rabobank                                                                                                                        

Learn more here.

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