Senegal’s Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling Initiative

Summary

Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling Solutions project, a strategic initiative to transform the national cooling sector while advancing the country’s climate and energy security goals. The initiative is a response to the surging demand for air conditioning and refrigeration driven by urbanization and rising temperatures. The project aims to transform the national cooling market by enforcing high energy-performance standards, phasing out obsolete equipment, and attracting climate finance to reduce the burden on the national power grid.
Led by the Agency for Energy Economy and Management (AEME) in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and involving the Directorate of Climate Change, Ecological Transition and Green Financing (DCCTEFV) and the National Climate Change Committee (COMNACC), the project is backed by a USD 1 million Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness grant. The Implementation process spans 36 months.
Core objectives include; Developing a pipeline of bankable projects to attract climate finance, Updating Senegal’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to better integrate private-sector engagement in sustainable cooling, and building institutional and market capacity for long-term market transformation.