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Advancing efforts that build resilience to rising temperatures…cooling the world's cities with solar reflective urban surfaces is an easy, cost-effective step toward cooling the planet.

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Unlock the Benefits of Cool Surfaces

Choosing a cool surface 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.

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.

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.

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Key Initiatives

Explore the Toolkit

The Cool Roofs and Cool Pavements Toolkit is an online resource to help cities, regions, organizations and building owners develop and deploy successful cool surface initiatives.

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.

Latest Updates

  • Cool Roadways Partnership

    Excessive Heat is a Major Urban Challenge. The need to protect people from extreme heat is one of the key resilience and sustainability challenges of the 21st Century. Rising urban temperatures have negative implications for nearly every aspect of urban life.

  • Kurt Shickman Receives Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld Award

    February 2022 A Message from the GCCA Board – New Leadership and Rosenfeld Urban Cooling Achievement Award Winner Thank you and Farewell to our GCCA Executive Director, Kurt Shickman It is with mixed emotions that the GCCA board bids farewell to Kurt Shickman, who after ten years as GCCA’s Executive Director is moving on to become … Continue reading Kurt Shickman Receives Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld Award →

  • Recommendations for cities 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. A new policy brief from the Society of Behavioral Medicine lays out a roadmap to help cities adjust their approach to preparing for compounding health challenges dangerous summer heat and COVID-19. The brief … Continue reading Recommendations for cities during the COVID-19 pandemic →

  • Be Cooler. We'll help you.

    Cool Roofs and Cool Pavements Toolkit

    Check out our free knowledge base and discussion forum about cool surfaces and global cooling at CoolRoofToolkit.org.

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Check out the new resource guide developed by CRRC, GCCA and PIMA for high performance roofs. coolroofs.org/documents/CRRC… @Official_CRRC @FutterAngela @MariaKoetter

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

Another great article on the Cool Community Pacoima Project! sustainablebrands.com/read/pr… @MariaKoetter @angelafutter

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

Join GCCA for Building Community Resilience: Extreme Heat Strategies and Funding from Los Angeles and Sacramento on 4/18/22 from 1:00 - 2:30pm to hear about new strategies to adapt to extreme heat. Register here: bit.ly/BuildingCommun… @cap_climate @The_LARC

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Check out how new research will be used to determine impacts of a community wide cool paving project in Pacoima, CA...one of the hottest neighborhoods in LA smartcitiesdive.com/news/urba…

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There is still time to register for GCCAs Cool Surfaces Webinars: March 23 at 10am EST and March 24 at 12pm EST. Want to learn the newest in cooling solutions, then you wont want to miss it! eventbrite.com/e/288089993927 pic.twitter.com/YY9rq5Jk6x

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