Cool City Training

Learn the strategies to cool cities and buildings. Understand how these measures work, how they reduce temperatures and save power in extreme heat with minimum carbon emissions.

District cooling systems provide efficient cooling from a central plant to multiple consumers in cities, business centers, localities, and townships. Learn the role cities play in designing and developing district cooling.

Heat maps record the temperature variations in cities and help in planning resilience to heat. In these case studies, experts describe the methods, processes and resources for analyzing heat patterns in cities.

The week long study tour for nearly 50 government officials from India and other countries included

• technical visits to high-class district cooling projects and passively cooled buildings

• workshops on national and local policy development in Singapore by UNEP, Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Energy Market Authority (EMA), Building and Construction Authority (BCA)

• workshops on technology, business models and financing for district cooling and passive cooling by local and international industry experts