Cooling Facility
As global temperatures increase and the demand for cooling rises, so do the emission levels of greenhouse and fluorinated gases, which have a very high global warming potential. Reports cite that at 1.5°C of warming – a threshold that could be reached by 2030 - 2.3 billion people could be vulnerable to illness and death from heatwave events (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2019) and productivity loss could be the equivalent of 80 million full-time jobs (International Labor Organization, 2019). Therefore low-carbon and sustainable cooling solutions are essential.
The Cooling Facility will be one of the world’s first cooling-focused facilities with the aim to provide cooling solutions in nine countries. It will focus on regulation and policy, technical assistance and financing to address and help remove barriers to the development of sustainable cooling investments. Planned measures include financing for investments in innovative, climate-friendly cooling technologies and systems, and creating an enabling environment by strengthening institutional, policy and regulatory frameworks and building capacity of key stakeholders in technologies, business models and cooling project appraisal and implementation.
Project timeline
Pipeline
17 Sep 2020 • 386 days
Funding proposal received
17 Sep 2020
Cleared by GCF Secretariat
16 Jul 2021
Cleared by iTAP
14 Sep 2021
Legal opinion on AE's Internal Approval
23 Sep 2021
Approved
07 Oct 2021 • 296 days
Approved by GCF Board
07 Oct 2021
FAA executed
15 Jul 2022
Under implementation
29 Jul 2022 • 1,025 days so far
FAA effective
29 Jul 2022
Disbursement - USD 1,000,000
19 Jan 2024
To be completed
29 Jul 2032 • 2,629 days to go
Four regions
- Africa
- Eastern Europe
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Asia-Pacific
Nine countries
Three priority groups
- Least Developed Countries
- Small Island Developing States
- African States
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Financing
- Private sector
- Public sector
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Size
- Micro
- Small
- Medium
- Large
GCF financing1% disbursed
| Instrument | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grant | USD 32,000,000 |
| Loan | USD 29,000,000 |
| Loan | USD 96,000,000 |
| Total GCF Financing |
|---|
| USD 157,000,000 |
Co-financing
| Co-financer | Instrument | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Co-Financing | Loan | USD 130,000,000 |
| Co-Financing | Loan | USD 27,400,000 |
| Co-Financing | Loan | USD 20,000,000 |
| Co-Financing | Loan | USD 86,000,000 |
| Co-Financing | Loan | USD 150,000,000 |
| Co-Financing | Guarantee | USD 50,000,000 |
| Co-Financing | Grant | USD 80,500,000 |
| Co-Financing | Grant | USD 25,000,000 |
| Co-Financing | Grant | USD 3,000,000 |
| Co-Financing | Grant | USD 940,000 |
| Co-Financing | Loan | USD 150,000,000 |
| Total Co-Financing |
|---|
| USD 722,840,000 |
GCF Contacts
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Project complaints and grievances
GCF Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM)Phone +82 32 458 6186 (KST)
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Integrity issues
GCF Independent Integrity Unity (IIU)Phone +82 32 458 6714 (KST)
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Entity
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and International Development Association
Fund Manager, Global Climate Funds
The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW MSN MC3-309 Washington DC 20433 USA, Washington, United States
More contacts
National Designated Authority
Environmental Affairs Department
Director
Environmental Affairs Department Private Bag 394 Lilongwe 3, Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi
Office of the President of the Government of Republic of North Macedonia
Special Advisor to the President of the Government of Republic of North Macedonia
Bul Ilinden nr.2, Skopje, North Macedonia
Head of Department for Regional and Sustainable Development
Bul Ilinden 2, Skopje, North Macedonia
Ministry of Environment
Climate Change Director
Diego Dominguez Street, Building 804 Albrook, Ancón, Panama City, Panama
Head of International Technical Cooperation Office
Diego Dominguez Street, Building 804 Albrook, Ancón, Panama City, Panama
The National Treasury
Principal Secretary
Treasury Building 12th Floor, Harambee Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya
Programme Manager, National Coordination (FLLoCA)
Senior Policy Advisor, Climate Finance
Ministry of Environment
Secretary
No. 416/C/1, Sobadam Piyasa, Robert Gunawardana Mawatha, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka
Director, Climate Change Secretariat
Sobadam Piyasa, No. 416/C/1, Robert Gunawardana Mawatha, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN)
Minister of Environment and Natural Resources
Kilómetro 5 ½ Carretera a Santa Tecla, Col. Las Mercedes, Frente a Círculo Miliar, Edificios MARN, San Salvador, El Salvador
Head of the Technical Unit of the Ministerial Office
Kilómetro 5 ½ Carretera a Santa Tecla, Col. Las Mercedes, Frente a Círculo Miliar, Edificios MARN, San Salvador, El Salvador
Phone (503) 7856-3457
jlaguardia@ambiente.gob.sv
rmgarcia@ambiente.gob.sv
claudia.ramirez@ambiente.gob.sv
Ministry of Economy and Finance
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Wadajir District, Airport Road, Mogadishu, Somalia
NDC Country Facilitator
Economic Relations Division (ERD), Ministry of Finance
Secretary
Block No. 8, Room No. 3 & 4, Shere-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Documents
| Title | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 Annual Performance Report for FP177: Cooling Facility | Annual Performance Report | 16 Aug 2024 |
| 2023 Annual Performance Report for FP177: Cooling Facility | Annual Performance Report | 18 Feb 2023 |
| Cooling Facility | Approved funding proposal | 23 Nov 2021 |
| Cooling facility | Case study | 26 Oct 2021 |
| Environmental and social safeguards (ESS) report for FP177: Cooling Facility | Environmental and Social Safeguards report | 14 Sep 2021 |
| Gender action plan for FP177: Cooling Facility | Gender action plan | 14 Sep 2021 |
| Gender assessment for FP177: Cooling Facility | Gender assessment | 14 Sep 2021 |
News + Stories
Turning down the heat
20 Nov 2024 / In Bangladesh, over 33 million children are forced to stay home for days as the sweltering heat makes school too dangerous. “I went to the school with my 13-year-old daughter. She was happy her school was open. But I was tense,” said Lucky Begum, whose daughter is enrolled at a state-run school in Dhaka. “The heat is too much, she already got heat rashes from sweating. I hope she does not get sick.”