Don’t overlook cooling, for the planet and for the people
“We cannot air-condition our way out of the heat crisis, …” This was the statement made by Inger Anderson, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, at COP30 in Belem. While heat waves are rising due to the climate crisis, the solution cannot be to simply increase the use of air-conditioning, because that would further increase greenhouse gas emissions, thus warming up the Earth even more, and be unaffordable for a lot of people as well, especially in low-income...