Beating the heat : a sustainable cooling handbook for cities

Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities was launched on November 3rd 2021 at COP26 by the Cool Coalition, UNEP, RMI, Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM), Mission Innovation and Clean Cooling Collaborative. The new guide offers planners an encyclopaedia of proven options to help cool cities. The guide’s 80 supporting case studies and examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategies outlined and can help cities find an approach best suited to their unique contexts.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Why a strategic, whole-system approach is key to sustainable urban cooling -- Chapter 3. Barriers to sustainable urban cooling and interventions to address them -- Chapter 4. Guidelines for cities for developing a cooling action plan -- Chapter 5. City's baseline assessment as the starting point for action -- Chapter 6. Heat-resilient urban design and infrastructure -- Chapter 7. District cooling -- Chapter 8. Energy-efficient and thermally efficient buildings -- Chapter 9. Cities leading by example -- Chapter 10. Community-centric intitatives to advance heat equity and access to cooling -- Chapter 11. Awareness and capacity-building to support sustainable urban cooling -- Chapter 12. Funding and financing sustainable urban cooling interventions.

207 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-205).

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