Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report

Recently, the Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report: Benefits of cooling efficiency and the Kigali agreement was released.
The report was published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The world will have four times more or at least 14 billion cooling appliances by 2050, contributing significantly to rising temperatures.
Without policy intervention, direct and indirect emissions from air conditioning and refrigeration are projected to rise by 90 per cent above 2017 levels by the year 2050.
About Hydro fluorocarbons (HFC)
- HFCs became widely used refrigerant substitutes for ozone-depleting substances that were phased out under the Montreal Protocol.
- HFC is a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential (GWP) thousands of times that of CO2 in some cases.
- Most of this gas is consumed in the cooling sector, comprising refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps (RACHP) in mobile and stationary applications.