The impact of climate change is increasingly felt in cities, where extreme weather events such as prolonged heat waves are exacerbated by the urban heat island effect. With more than 55% of the world's population residing in cities, it has become crucial to address the climatic challenges in urban areas. This urgency has led to the development of the new Annex 'Sustainable Cooling in Cities', which focuses on implementing climate actions in urban agglomerations.

At the beginning of this project, the State-of-the-Art Review summarises current development of sustainable urban cooling strategies and policy practices from 13 cities.

This webinar will present selected cooling strategies, give an overview of the status of methods to assess urban cooling solutions, as well as current city policies promoting sustainable cooling in urban environments.

This webinar is organised by Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC) & venticool in collaboration with IEA EBC Annex 97/Task 5. The webinar is facilitated by INIVE.

Agenda

• 09:00 - 09:05 Welcome & Introduction

  Philipp Stern, Institute of Building Research & Innovation, Austria

• 09:05 - 09:20 Methods and experiments to assess urban cooling

  Claudia Fabiani, University of Perugia, Italy

• 09:20 - 09:35 Water misting to cool urban environments

  Craig Farnham, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

• 09:35 - 09:50 Urban cooling policy practices of 13 cities

  Theofanis Psomas, Munster University of Technology, Ireland

• 09:50 - 10:15 Questions & Answers