UN report: ‘Demand for air conditioning could triple by 2050’
Air conditioning alone won’t be enough to pull us out of the heat crisis What we need are more ‘passive’ solutions, such as shading, manual ventilation, greening, and the construction of water features /domotechnics.be
If current trends continue, the demand for air conditioning could triple by 2050. This is the warning from the Global Cooling Watch 2050 study, published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) on the sidelines of COP30, the UN climate summit that started on Monday in Belem, Brazil.
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