Policies

Cooling demand is growing rapidly, driven by rising population, increasing incomes, and higher global average temperatures.

Cooling is essential for sustainable development, but growth in demand will drive further climate change, creating a vicious cycle of more cooling and emissions.

To avoid this future, while still enabling protection from extreme heat, policy and regulatory actions will be required in three areas: passive cooling, higher energy efficiency standards, and the management and phase down of climate-warming refrigerants used in the cooling industry.

Moreover, an integrated approach that compounds the linkages across these policies, as well as targets sustainable cooling actions based on national priorities, will be key.