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Cool it - How to address global cooling needs in a warming world?

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
15 May 2021
Submission deadline
Ongoing
The journal Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change publishes a continuous Topical Collection on 'Cool it - How to address global cooling needs in a warming world?'. We now call for papers covering state-of-the-art research and review articles on low-GWP refrigerants for refrigeration, air-conditioning, and heat pumps, alternative cooling policies, design, technologies, behaviors, etc. The research efforts in this framework cover a wide range of themes including co-benefits of the Kigali Amendment with enhanced energy efficiency, cost-optimal strategies for achieving Kigali targets and scenario analysis of future cooling paths and suitable policy tools that will be critical on to achieve sustainable societies targets, able to consider local specific characteristics as climatic condition, building typology and occupant behavior patterns. Some examples of review or original research papers that would be responsive to this topical collection include: • Cold supply chain logistics • Equitable access to cooling • National cooling action plans • Cooling demand management • Policy, regulation, and standards • Low-GWP and natural refrigerants • Increased data center cooling needs • Alternative approaches for thermal comfort • Energy, climate, and environmental impacts • Passive cooling solutions for adaptation and mitigation • High-efficiency fans, evaporative coolers, and dehumidifiers • Role of cold chain expansion in preventing zoonotic disease origination • Adaptation to heat stress in cities under urban heat island and climate change • Improving access to low-energy and low-emitting affordable cooling technologies

Editors

  • Pallav Purohit Pallav Purohit , 

    Pallav Purohit

    Pallav Purohit is a Research Scholar at the Energy, Climate and Environment Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. His research focuses on modeling global fluorinated greenhouse gas emissions, co-benefits of the Kigali amendment, integrated assessment of air pollution and greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers. His other research interests include energy economics, market penetration of renewable energy technologies and cost-effective control of air pollution and greenhouse gases. He is on the Editorial Boards of various international journals dealing with energy and environment issues.

  • Alessio Mastrucci Alessio Mastrucci  &

    Alessio Mastrucci

    Alessio Mastrucci is a Research Scholar at the Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. His research focuses on energy demand and climate change mitigation policies in the building sector, and access to residential cooling and adaptation to heat stress in the global South. His research interests include energy and technology scenarios, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and linkages between energy and human development.

  • Nihar Shah Nihar Shah

    Nihar Shah

    Nihar Shah is Deputy Head of the International Energy Analysis Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Presidential Director of Berkeley Lab’s Global Cooling Efficiency Program leading research on alternate refrigerants and energy efficiency for cooling equipment and technical assistance for cooling efficiency policies globally, including research in support of the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program(K-CEP). He is also co-leader of Berkeley Lab's Emerging Economies Program. His other research interests include corporate disclosure of climate risk, circular economy, advanced manufacturing and water technology and policy.

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