Cooling emerging as key focus area
Cambodia has recently announced its new National Cooling Action Plan, the first to be developed in South-East Asia.
The National Cooling Action Plan Methodology was jointly developed by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), in partnership with UNEP under the framework of the Cool Coalition and with the support of Energy Foundation China.
The methodology was piloted in the Kingdom to support the Ministry of Environment in identifying climate-friendly and low-energy cooling pathways.
Cambodia was also the first country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to have completed its Enabling Activities for HFC Phase-down with UNEP for effective implementation of the Kigali Amendment, which Cambodia ratified on April 8, 2021.
Neth Pheaktra, Spokesman of the Ministry of Environment said the NCAP would also help the Kingdom leverage the potential of passive building solutions and cold chains as means to tackle the cooling challenge and to enhance and effectively implement the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) targets.
The Ministry of Environment of Cambodia has identified efficient, climate-friendly cooling as one of the priority actions for GHG mitigation.
Pheaktra said the government has been working with partners to implement a range of activities for the effective implementation of the Kigali Amendment and the Paris Climate Agreement, which include energy efficiency interventions and climate-friendly refrigerant adoption for emission reduction in the cooling sector.