Cooling Hub | Climate & Clean Air Coalition

The CCAC has a strong track record on industry engagement and mobilizing political leaders to support action on HFCs. From 2012 the Coalition actively campaigned globally to reduce HFCs and partners worked together to get an agreement to pass the Kigali Amendment in 2016.

The 2030 Cooling Engagement Strategy aims to maximize the environmental and climate benefits of the HFC phase-down under Kigali Amendment by promoting early and complementary actions on HFCs, supporting strategic actions to minimize HFC emissions throughout the lifecycle of cooling equipment, and reducing the energy demand associated with new and existing cooling equipment.

The Cooling Hub brings together state and non-state members and other interested entities to build high-level political leadership and facilitate collaboration on its current priorities in the sector:

Lifecycle Refrigerant Management (LRM)
Environmental Dumping of Cooling Appliances
Cooling Efficiency
Finance

Opportunities for action

60%

Sixty percent of HFC consumption today comes from topping up leaky equipment. The other 40% is used in new equipment.

90%

Emissions from air conditioning and refrigeration are expected to rise by 90% (compared to 2017 levels) by 2050. This would be equivalent to an additional 30% of CO₂ emissions.

80%

Almost 80% of the climate impact from cooling comes from the electricity generated to power the equipment.

2x

Improving air conditioning efficiency could as much as double the climate benefit of the Kigali Amendment.

Coalition Ministers at the special High Level Assembly in Vienna 2016

Winners of the Political Leadership Award pose for a selfie in Montreal, November 2017. The CCAC was the only institution that received the award along with individuals that showed leadership to achieve the Kigali Amendment

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Approach

The CCAC has a strong track record on industry engagement and mobilizing political leaders to support action on HFCs. We have also developed and implemented technology demonstration projects and case studies to promote HFC alternatives.

Our work follows a set of tailored approaches to achieving the goals of increased national and industry action on cooling. These include:

Promoting cooling on the agendas of high-levels forums, such as the G7, G20, and UN Ministerial meetings
Finalising the inventory of cooling initiatives and programs developed by the Kigali Work-Stream
Demonstrating how to achieve accelerated HFC consumption and emission reductions while enhancing energy efficiency
Mapping CCAC partner countries’ existing measures and plans to assess progress towards achieving Kigali Amendment objectives and identify opportunities that enhance effort
Developing and disseminating tools and guidance to help partner countries identify and adopt zero or low-global warming potential (GWP), energy efficient alternative technologies, including through nature-based and passive solutions

Leadership

The Cooling Hub is co-led by Japan and the Maldives. Co-leadership by countries ensures government engagement and ownership of the solutions. Co-leads provide valuable insights into the policy process to help ensure implementation is practical from a national perspective.

The Cooling Hub Leadership Group consists of both state and non-state members that provide guidance and expertise, and connect the Hub to activities underway beyond the CCAC.