{"id":131920,"date":"2025-11-12T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131920\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:30:17","slug":"un-cop30-climate-report-says-sustainable-cooling-essential-to-cut-emissions-and-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/131920\/","title":{"rendered":"UN COP30 climate report says sustainable cooling essential to cut emissions and save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  By&amp;nbsp<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/profiles\/957\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Fisayo-Bambi<\/a>&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspAP<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Published on                 12\/11\/2025 &#8211; 13:27 GMT+1<br \/>\n                \u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     13:37\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>Sustainable cooling must be prioritised as part of efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the UN has said in a report published at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil. <\/p>\n<p>The message was delivered in the city of Bel\u00e9m on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, where delegates from almost 200 countries are attending the climate summit. <\/p>\n<p>UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Inger Andersen told a news conference that cooling was vital. <\/p>\n<p>It must be treated as an essential piece of infrastructure \u2014 alongside water, energy and sanitation \u2014 because it saves lives and keeps economies and schools and hospitals running, Andersen said. <\/p>\n<p>However, the UNEP executive director warned that an over-reliance on conventional air conditioning would worsen the heat crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we do that, then we would just drive up greenhouse gases, raise costs, cause grid overload and essentially peak demand,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The UN official called for energy-efficient solutions, including smart buildings, affordable cooling and urban design that lowers the carbon footprint of cooling.<\/p>\n<p>UN warns cooling emissions to double by 2050<\/p>\n<p>The UN report&#8217;s launch coincided with the announcement of the Mutir\u00e3o Contra o Calor Extremo, the Beat the Heat initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The programme, which is led by the Brazil COP30 presidency and UNEP, aims to boost extreme heat resilience. <\/p>\n<p>Ruth Do Coutto, the UN Environment Agency&#8217;s deputy director for climate change, warned that emissions from cooling are rising and could double by 2050 without sustainable practices. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, as you can see, the more we cool, the more we emit. So, cooling emissions are growing and will double by 2050 if we do not adopt more sustainable cooling practices,&#8221; Do Coutto said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, what the report has shown us is that there is a pathway, it is called the sustainable cooling pathway, that demonstrates that we can meet this demand for cooling that we all need while cutting emissions if we implement measures together,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters confront security at talks venue<\/p>\n<p>In other COP30 developments, a group of activists clashed with security on Tuesday night as they attempted to push their way into the main venue of the UN climate talks. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear if anyone was hurt in the incident, but at least four ambulances stood outside the venue in its aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspJerry Fisayo-Bambi&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspAP Published on 12\/11\/2025 &#8211; 13:27 GMT+1 \u2022Updated 13:37 Sustainable cooling must be prioritised as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25076,575,56613,90713,26462,273,111,139,69,147,16940],"class_list":{"0":"post-131920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-amazonia","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-climate-crisis","11":"tag-climate-protests","12":"tag-cop30","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-united-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}