Cooling for All
Cooling for All’s mission is to generate the evidence, partnerships, policy and business solutions necessary to provide sustainable cooling for all and to reduce the energy demand needed to achieve this.
Cooling for All does not mean an air-conditioner or refrigerator in every home; it means providing affordable and sustainable solutions to address the needs of the vulnerable, such as access to nutritious food and safe medicines and protection from heat in the transition to clean energy.
According to our Chilling Prospects 2021 report, 1.09 billion people are at high risk due to lack of access to cooling and a further 2.34 billion lack access to clean and efficient cooling.
In a warming world, access to sustainable cooling is not a luxury. It is an issue of equity and a service that must be delivered to all to achieve SDG7.
SEforALL’s new Cooling for All Solutions Tool allows you to assess the cooling risk in your country or community in the areas of comfort and safety, food and nutrition, health and care. Out of approximately 60 sustainable cooling solutions, the tool picks the most suitable technical, policy, financial and services solutions for you. By applying criteria like cost, energy source or environmental impact, you can further refine your options for providing sustainable cooling for all. Try it out and provide your feedback as we grow the tool and add more sustainable cooling solutions.
The Clean Cooling Collaborative, the leading global philanthropic program to advance climate-friendly cooling solutions for all, released its 2017-2021 impact report, "Scaling up clean cooling for all". Formerly named the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP), the report covers accomplishments during its first four years of operations to support the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons under the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
1.09 billion people are at high risk due to lack of access to cooling and a further 2.34 billion lack access to clean and efficient cooling.
Our This Is Cool campaign is a celebration of what can be done and is a response to the Chilling Prospects findings. It aims to bring greater awareness of the solutions and aims to show what can be done across the world to make sustainable cooling for all a reality. Whether you’re a policymaker, organisation, government employee, company or individual, you can help to make affordable and sustainable cooling for all a reality by taking part in this campaign today.
Selected media coverage
Chilling Prospects 2021: report tracks access to cooling issues, ESI Africa
'Cooling gap' widens, despite rising heat, as pandemic hikes poverty, Reuters
Renewable energy could fix COVID vaccine distribution, Reuters
10 sustainable cooling trends in Africa for 2020, ESI Africa
COVID-19 vaccines raise hope but the 'last mile' challenge looms, Reuters
How your fridge is heating up the planet, BBC
Hotter days ahead, but cooling India can't be only about air-conditioning, Economic Times, India
Factbox: Heat is on to bring cooling to 1 billion people without it, Reuters
Lack of Sustainable Cooling Threatens Safety, Health and Food Security of Hundreds of Millions, IISD Knowledge Hub
Nigeria, Liberia, 10 others at risk of public safety, health, food security – Report, The Guardian, Nigeria
Health and safety of 1 billion people at risk from lack of access to cooling, Economic Times, India
Cooling for All Secretariat
The Cooling for All Secretariat is a platform for coordinating responses to address access to cooling. The Secretariat aims to identify the challenges of providing access to affordable, sustainable cooling solutions for all, and to seize opportunities to support access initiatives.
The Secretariat takes an “efficiency-first” approach that emphasizes the need to think systematically about what cooling services people require and how to deliver them in a way that minimizes energy demands. This gives priority to simple solutions, like white roofs/walls, alongside other high-efficiency cooling technologies that run on sustainable energy.
Our work is guided by the Global Panel on Access to Cooling, a group of leaders from business, philanthropy, policy and academia committed to providing Cooling for All.
Learn more about the need for sustainable cooling through our flagship report Chilling Prospects or by exploring our Knowledge and Data resources and the Access to Cooling Initiatives supported by the Secretariat.
