As the planet gets hotter, more people use air conditioners to keep cool. Running these takes lots of energy, which means emissions that then further speed up global warming. Rethinking our architecture and using more efficient cooling technologies could help us break this vicious circle.

#PlanetA #AirConditioner #GlobalWarming

Credits:
Reporter: Beatrice Christofaro
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editors: Kiyo Dörrer, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

Interviewees:
Sneha Sachar, Associate director, Clean Cooling Collaborative
Ankit Kalanki, Manager, RMI
Prasad Vaidya, Senior advisor, Alliance for Energy Efficient Economy
Charles Gallavardin, Co-founder, Kanopea Architecture & T3 Architects

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Read more:
A sustainable cooling handbook for cities:
https://www.unep.org/resources/report...

Report on the future of cooling:
https://www.iea.org/reports/the-futur...

Medellín's interconnected green corridors:
https://www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/art...

Go-to guide for sustainable district cooling:
https://www.iea.org/articles/the-go-t...

Special thanks (for research support):
Ulises Bobadilla y Jiménez
Peter Farag

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 The history of ACs
02:38 The dilemma
03:33 Cooler cities
04:43 Cooler buildings
07:34 Better ACs
10:22 District cooling
11:48 Conclusion