National Cooling Action Plan for Kenya
Ministry of Environment Climate Change and Forestry
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Abstract: A National Cooling Action Plan defines a country?s ambitions towards sustainable cooling and charts the best possible path for accommodating current and future cooling demand while minimizing possible impacts on the environment,especially climate impacts. The Kenya National Cooling Action Plan is designed to enhance access to sustainable cooling for all Kenyans. The target is a holistic approach across sectors,taking into account the individual appliance,the building shell,as well as cold chains and the cooling needs for the entire population. This will be achieved by increasing access to and improving efficiency of cooling appliances available in Kenya,transitioning the cooling sector to refrigerants with low global warming potential in general and to natural refrigerants where feasible,and increasing access to agricultural cold chains. In addition,the revision of building codes is initiated to mainstream passive cooling and to avoid the lock-in of poorly insulated new buildings that exhibit a high cooling load. Passive cooling measures can provide critical cooling services to populations lacking cooling appliances or the economic means to operate them,while also reducing and avoiding the cooling energy demand. Kenya?s National Cooling Action Plan is a living document,that will be updated in regular intervals to include more measures as capacities for implementation increase. The current focus lies on the promotion of energy efficient refrigeration and air-conditioning appliances,as those are rather straight forward measures that can be implemented in the short and medium term.