{"id":5533,"date":"2019-09-24T10:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"in-support-of-climate-action-cool-coalition-partners-announce-huge-push-on-efficient-climate-friendly-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/24\/in-support-of-climate-action-cool-coalition-partners-announce-huge-push-on-efficient-climate-friendly-cooling\/","title":{"rendered":"In Support Of Climate Action, Cool Coalition Partners Announce Huge Push-On Efficient, Climate-Friendly Cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\nUN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nthe world gathered for the Climate Action Summit today, partners of the Cool\nCoalition announced major new commitments on efficient, climate-friendly\ncooling which can make a huge positive impact on climate change, help achieve\nsustainable development and save trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commitments\ninclude governments promising to develop comprehensive national cooling plans,\nmajor companies in the cooling industry pledging to cut the emissions of their\nproducts, and donors providing new funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catalyzed\nby the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Programme, the Cool Coalition \u2013 a global\nnetwork connecting over 80 partners from the private sector, government,\ncities, international organizations, finance, academia and civil society \u2013 was\nset up in April 2019 and works to expand access to cooling while reducing the\nclimate impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncooling challenge has been referred to as a \u201cblind spot\u201d in climate action,\nwhich must increase at least fivefold to keep the global temperature rise this\ncentury to 1.5\u00b0C. By taking forward an unprecedented and coordinated surge of\nactivity to make efficient, climate-friendly cooling accessible for all, the\nCool Coalition is responding to the UN Secretary-General\u2019s call for accelerated\nclimate action. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/support-climate-action-cool-coalition-partners-announce-huge-push\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment As the world gathered for the Climate Action Summit today, partners of the Cool Coalition announced major new commitments on efficient, climate-friendly cooling which can make a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}