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Cool Roadways

Cool Roadways Partnership to Build Heat Resiliency

Cities, industry, and others are partnering to accelerate the development of cool pavement solutions. Learn more here.
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Primer for Cool Cities

Passive Cooling Measures and How to Implement Them

Cities need to transform into more equitable, resilient, and prosperous places in the face of rapidly rising temperatures. The Primer shows cities how to do just that.
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New Initiatives

The One Million Cool Roofs Challenge

A first-of-its-kind, $2 million USD initiative to accelerate the transformation to cool surface in places that need it most.
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Key Initiatives

Addressing Dangerous Heat During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Recommendations from GCCA, Society of Behavioral Medicine and others provide a roadmap for cities to address dangerous heat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Discover

Unlock the Benefits of Cool Roofs

Choosing a cool roof could help generate hundreds of millions of dollars, save lives, and make your town a nicer place. Use this interactive feature to explore the problems attributed to excess urban heat, and see how cool surfaces can help.
About Us

Cool Cities Are Sustainable Cities

Global Cool Cities Alliance helps cities, countries, and others cost-effectively save energy, improve health and quality of life, and combat climate change by reducing excess urban heat.
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About Us

Cities taking action to reduce excess heat.

The Cool Cities Network is a partnership with C40 to connect cities and experts to understand, communicate about, and reduce excess urban heat.
The Science

Addressing Climate Change with Cool Surfaces

Switching to cool roofs cancels the warming effect of 500 coal power plants worth of GHG emissions. Learn more about the science.
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The Science

The Trillion Dollar Opportunity for Cities

Urban heat could cost cities up to 11% of their economic output by 2100. But UHI mitigation could generate billions in health, energy, and economic benefits. Learn more about the science.
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Key Initiatives

  • GCCA Executive Director Kurt Shickman on WAMU’s Metro Connection

    GCCA Executive Director, Kurt Shickman recently discussed rising urban temperatures, and explained that when cities lighten up, they cool down.

GCCA Highlight

Check out the Primer for Cool Cities to find out how cities can use passive cooling solutions and policies to build heat resiliency.

GCCA on Twitter

Very excited to announce the Cool Roadways Partnership to make pavements part of the urban cooling solution. CRP includes cities (21 & counting), industry, and others working together to pilot and innovate scalable cool pavements. globalcoolcities.org/cool-roa…

Last month from Global Cool Cities's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Great roundup of sustainable cooling efforts in Africa -- including a shout out to @sanedi_org and the other great @Kigali_Cooling Million Cool Roofs Challenge Teams in Niger, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, and Kenya! esi-africa.com/features-analy…

Last month from Global Cool Cities's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Great stuff @sanedi_org! iol.co.za/lifestyle/gree…

About 2 months ago from Global Cool Cities's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Cities with plans to protect their citizens from the deadliest natural disaster. Smart! huffpost.com/entry/heat-wav…

About 2 months ago from Global Cool Cities's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Clear evidence from @WRIIndia that conditions in slums are dramatically hotter (6C!) than nearby areas. Cool roofs, cool walls, and shade would have an immediate effect and are ready to deploy right now.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-new…

About 2 months ago from Global Cool Cities's Twitter via Twitter Web App

Cooling the world's cities with solar reflective urban surfaces is an easy, cost-effective first step toward cooling the planet.

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