Time of Event

Day 1: 09:50-15:10 Tokyo time
Day 2: 13:50-16:55 Tokyo time
Day 3: 13:50-16:30 Tokyo time

Summary

The promotion of energy-efficient, climate-friendly technology is critical to meeting developing Asia’s rapidly increasing demand for cooling while advancing net-zero carbon targets, climate change mitigation under the Paris Agreement, and the Sustainable Development Goals. However, such breakthroughs will require greater cooling technology knowledge and capacity in the region.

Cohosted by ADBI, the Asian Development Bank, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States, this virtual workshop spotlighted new policy research on addressing climate-friendly cooling needs in developing Asian countries. The focus was on deployment challenges and viable policy and funding solutions.

Objectives

  • Examine developing Asia’s growing cooling needs

  • Highlight innovative policy and financial measures for enabling low-carbon cooling and investment

  • Discuss related deployment strategies

Target Participants
  • Policy makers and experts from think tanks, universities, and other institutions, as well as post-graduate students and interested members of the public
Output
  • Greater understanding of low-carbon cooling needs and challenges in developing Asian countries
  • Identification of policies for addressing low-carbon cooling technology and funding gaps
  • Papers featured during the workshop will be considered for publication as ADBI working papers and inclusion in an ADBI-ADB book
Conference Presentations*

Day 1

Passive Design and Technologies to Reduce Cooling Energy Demand
Presenter: Wei Feng, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Solutions to Reduce the Need for Cooling
Discussant: Brian Dean, Head of Energy Efficiency & Cooling, Sustainable Energy For All

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Financial Solutions to Invest in Climate-Friendly Cooling
Presenter: Bo Shen

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Review of the paper “Financing Climate Friendly Cooling Deployment at City Scale”
Discussant: Ying Fan

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Policy Solutions to Enable Climate Friendly Cooling
Presenter: Feng An, Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation

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Policy Solutions to Enable Climate-Friendly Cooling
Discussant: Jeong Won Kim, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore

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Cooling efficiency improvement
Presenters: Chen Jingliang, Liu Lulu

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Cooling Efficiency Improvement
Discussant: S P Garnaik

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Thermal Energy Storage & Cooling Load Response
Presenter: Alessandro Romagnoli, Associate Professor, Nanyang E

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Thermal Energy Storage & Cooling Load Response
Discussant: Lee Poh Seng, Associate Professor, Energy Director, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore

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Day 2

Cooling Needs and Impacts
Presenters: Alfredo Baño Leal, Senior Energy Specialist, Asian Development Bank
Mikael Jakobsson, CEO, NXITY, Executive Director, APUEA

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Cooling Demand
Discussant: Wei Feng, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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District Cooling
Presenters: Alfredo Baño Leal, Senior Energy Specialist, Asian Development Bank
Jun Onn Khor, Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

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District Cooling Systems
Discussants: Chen Jingliang, Liu Lulu

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International Agreements and Targets
Presenter: Jeong Won Kim, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore

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International Agreements and Targets
Discussant: Shu Tian, ERCD, Asian Development Bank

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Technological development and innovation of cooling technologies
Presenter: Zhong Sheng, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore

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Development of Climate Friendly Cooling Technologies: Trends and Driving Factors
Discussant: Rahul Srinivasan, Energy Specialist, ESMAP, Energy and Extractives Global Practice, The World Bank

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Day 3

Digitization
Presenter: Jing Liu, Co-founder & CTO, Beijing QingTing Network Technology Co.,Ltd

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Discussion of Paper and Presentation on Digitalization
Discussant: Yixin Yao, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute

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Climate-safe refrigerants
Presenter: Zhang Zhaohui, Vice Chairman & Secretary General, China Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Industry Association (CRAA)

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Comments on Paper 11: Climate-safe Refrigerants
Discussant: Xing Ziwen

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The Cold Economy
Presenter: Toby Peters, Professor in Cold Economy, University of Birmingham

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Comments on “the Cold Economy” – by Prof. Toby Peters and Dr. Leyla Sayin
Discussant: Naoko Doi, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan

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*Disclaimer: The views expressed in these presentations are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in these presentations and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.

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