Belem: Amid rising heatwaves and surging cooling demand, adopting sustainable cooling, with a strong focus on passive techniques low-energy and hybrid cooling that combines fans and air conditioners which consume little or no power, could cut greenhouse gas emissions, save trillions of dollars and expand life-saving cooling access to those who need it, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report said on Tuesday.

“Global Cooling Watch 2025”, launched at COP-30 in Belem in Brazil, finds that cooling demand could more than triple by 2050 under business as usual, driven by increases in population and wealth, more extreme heat events and low-income households increasingly gaining access to more polluting and inefficient cooling.

This would almost double cooling-related greenhouse gas emissio

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