The Barbados National Cooling Strategy (NCS) is a product of the collaborative effort of the National Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) and Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Management Programme of the Ministry of Environment and National Beautification (MENB) and the Caribbean Cooling Initiative (C-COOL) led by the United Nation’s Environment Programme (UNEP) United for Efficiency (U4E) team, with contributions provided by key stakeholders from governmental and non-governmental organisations during consultations, meetings and the document development and review stage.

Under the umbrella of the C-COOL initiative, a review of priority subsets of the cooling sector in Barbados was carried out, with a focus on stationary refrigeration and space cooling given the outsized importance of these applications and ability to make near-term, impactful interventions. C-COOL then developed recommendations to mitigate much of the waste of electricity and the impacts of refrigerant gasses through a range of voluntary and regulatory approaches. The findings are compiled into this National Cooling Strategy.

It includes input from a wide cross-section of the country, including government officials, tourism stakeholders, technology providers, financial institutions, and civil society organizations. A combination of best practice policies, programmes, awareness-raising, and capacity building should be marshalled to change the landscape toward widespread implementation in Barbados, leveraging the best home-grown ideas alongside proven approaches that have taken root in proactive markets around the world.

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