At the same time, current cooling technologies are energy intensive and highly polluting, already causing around 10% of global CO2 emissions, 3x that attributed to aviation and shipping combined. Cooling is vital to our modern society through food and pharmaceutical cold chains, data centres and air conditioning, and demand is accelerating, especially in fast-growing developing economies. Global energy demand for space cooling will overtake space heating by 2060, and in fact, the IPCC has projected that by the end of the century air conditioning will consume almost half the electricity generated worldwide today.

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