Published on : 11 Nov 2025, 11:47 am

Cooling — once seen as a luxury — is now a lifeline. But as global temperatures rise and cities swelter under record heatwaves, the world’s growing demand for air conditioning could itself become a major driver of climate change unless cooling systems are redesigned to be sustainable, inclusive, and low-carbon, warns a new UN report released on November 11 at the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Belém, Brazil.

Global Cooling Watch 2025, published by the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Cool Coalition, finds that global cooling demand is set to triple by 2050, threatening to double related emissions to 7.2 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent — unless countries act now to deliver cl

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