Clean Cooling Collaborative sets out holistic sustainability strategy
The Clean Cooling Collaborative has detailed a refreshed four-year industry decarbonisation strategy that will combine work around technical innovation, system efficiency and building design.
Noah Horowitz, director of the Clean Cooling Collaborative, announced in a blogpost that the organisation will aim to think more holistically in its work on ‘getting cooling right’.
This ambition will be based on three different approaches that includes assisting authorities and organisations to look at how building design and urban planning can be used to tackle overheating risks. Mr Horowitz said that implementing different approaches for passive cooling would be a big step in reducing demand for more energy intensive mechanical cooling systems.
In terms of technical challenges, the Clean Cooling Collaborative said it will also look at not only introducing more innovative technologies, but also how they are used to be more efficient. A focus of this work will therefore not only look to bring new systems to market through initiatives such as the now awarded $1m Global Cooling Prize, but also seek to help the industry improve operational performance. This will involve assisting engineers and operators to improve the efficiency of systems and their components and reduce refrigerant leakage rates.
Another major aim for the four-year strategy will be improving access globally to efficient and more climate-friendly cooling. This should apply to countries with populations particularly at risk to adverse heat and temperatures to ensure there is sufficient resilience to reducing illness and deaths linked to high temperatures.
The Clean Cooling Collaborative said the main priorities of the strategy should be implemented equitably to ensure the global accessibility of sustainable cooling.
It added that its work would consider the financial challenges of sustainable cooling and how the latest industry developments and best practice are communicated and shared. The collaborative added it would closely engage with system manufacturers and their end users on this work.
Mr Horowitz said the collaborative expected to prioritise several major markets with the strategy.