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Webinar: #ThisIsCool Event Chilling Prospects: Tracking Sustainable Cooling for All 2021

23.04.2021

SEforALL has teamed up with the Cool Coalition to present the #ThisIsCool webinar series. The series draws on Sustainable Energy for All‘s (SEforALL) “This Is Cool” campaign which shows what can be done across the world to make efficient and climate friendly cooling for all a reality.

Wednesday 5th May 2021.

In 2020, global development efforts stalled as governments worked to address the health, social, and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, 2020 was the hottest year on record, and we learned and that in every region of the world, heatwaves have increased in their frequency and length since the 1950s.

These two factors, coupled with persistent energy access gaps in some of the world’s hottest and most populous countries, mean that the challenge of delivering access to sustainable cooling is likely to continue growing in size and scope.

Chilling Prospects: Tracking Sustainable Cooling for All 2021, gives an update on global progress on delivering Cooling for All. This year’s report will show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global cooling access gaps and discuss where a lack of cold chains could slow the pandemic recovery. The report will also detail new cooling solutions in action across the globe, deliver new national and sub-national data, and share insights on how national governments can measure and respond to access to cooling challenges.

Register for the event here: www.seforall.org/registration-thisiscool-event-chilling-prospects-tracking-sustainable-cooling-for-all-2021
Once you submit your registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the event.

See below agenda:

16:00 – 16:15 CET Introduction
  • Master of Ceremony: Thin Le Win, Climate & Food Correspondent, @thinink
Video: Cooling is Not a Luxury 2021   

Welcoming Remarks 
  • Francesco Starace, Chair of the SEforALL Administrative Board, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Enel S.p.A.
  • Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy 
16:15 – 16:25 CET Chilling Prospects 2021 Findings
  • Brian Dean, Head of Energy Efficiency and Cooling, SEforALL
16:25 – 16:55 CET Panel Discussion: Global Stocktake and the Opportunities Ahead
Moderator:
  • Nicolette Pombo-van Zyl, Editor of ESI Africa
Speakers:
  • Jessica Brown, Program Director, Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program
  • Toby Peters, Professor of Cold Economy, University of Birmingham
  • Iain Campbell, Senior Fellow, Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Lily Riahi, Program Manager, United Nations Environment Programme, Cool Coalition
16:55 – 17:00 CET Video: #ThisIsCool
 
17:00 – 17:20 CET Solutions in Profile
  • Innovation: The Global Cooling Prize (video)
  • Cold Chain: Africa Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Cooling, Juliet Kabera, Director General, Rwandan Environmental Management Authority
  • Cool Roofs: Million Cool Roofs, Denise Lundall, Project Officer, SANEDI (South Africa)
  • Community: Medellin, Green Corridors and Cooling as a Service (video), Alejandro Restrepo Montoya, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
  • Youth in Action: Triomphant Tchulang (Cameroon) (video)
17:20 – 17:25 CET Path to Net Zero
  • Dan Hamza-Goodacre, COP 26 Climate Champions Team
17:25 – 17:45 CET In Conversation: Cooling and COVID-19
Interviewer: Sara Jerving, Global Health Journalist
Interviewee(s)
  • Martina Bosi, Senior Energy Economist, World Bank Group, ESMAP
  • Luc Severi, Programme Manager, Powering Healthcare, SEforALL
17:45 – 17:50 CET Closing Remarks, SEforALL

 


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