We're making efficient, climate-friendly cooling for all a reality.
Clean Cooling Collaborative works to make cooling more sustainable and accessible.
The benefits of clean cooling
To meet the growing demand for cooling while minimizing its climate impact, we must scale up energy-efficient, climate-friendly solutions. Doing so is necessary to achieve many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Improving how we cool could avoid significant greenhouse gas emissions and will:
Speed up and lower the cost of the global transition to a clean, more resilient energy grid with fewer power outages.
Reduce food loss and its associated greenhouse gas emissions while improving income for farmers and nutrition for consumers.
Ensure a just transition to a net-zero carbon future by improving the quality of life for people everywhere.
Improve air quality and public health due to reduced pollutant emissions from power plants.
Save trillions of dollars in utility bills and infrastructure investments.
How to cool a warming world
To realize the many benefits of universal access to clean cooling, we support efforts that:
Raise the profile of — and resources for — efficient, climate-friendly cooling
as a core climate mitigation, development, and equity opportunity
Avoid and reduce the need for mechanical cooling
through improved building design, urban planning, and other passive cooling solutions.
- Passive cooling
Optimize and improve cooling technologies and how they're used,
to become more energy-efficient, climate-friendly, and grid-friendly.
- Super-efficient AC
- Efficiency standards and labels
- HFC phasedown
- Heat pumps
- Demand response
- Cold chain
Increase access to efficient, climate-friendly cooling
for low-income, heat-vulnerable communities
- Finance
