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232 a goal set by the UN’s Paris Agreement: to more than double the average energy efficiency of AC units worldwide between 2018 and 2050. 9 1 Lucas W. Davis and Paul J. Gertler, “Contribution of Air Conditioning Adoption to Future Energy Use under Global Warming,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, no. 19 (May 12, 2015): 5962–67, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1423558112. 2 IEA, The Future of Cooling: Opportunities for Energy-Efficient Air Conditioning (Paris: IEA, 2018), https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264301993-en. 3 “2015 RECS Survey Data,” Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), U.S. Energy Information Administration, https://www.eia.gov /consumption/residential/. 4 Christina Ospina, “Cooling Your Home but Warming the Planet: How We Can Stop Air Conditioning from Worsening Climate Change,” Climate Institute, August 7, 2018, https://climate .org/cooling-your-home-but-warming-the -planet-how-we-can-stop-air-conditioning-from -worsening-climate-change/. 5 Zheming Tong, Yujiao Chen, Ali Malkawi, Zhu Liu, and Richard B. Freeman, “Energy Saving Potential of Natural Ventilation in China: The Impact of Ambient Air Pollution,” Applied Energy , no. 179 (October 2016): 660–68, https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.07.019. 6 Alpha Yacob Arsano and Christoph Reinhart, Early-Design Optimization of Target Ventilation Rates for Hybrid Buildings Using Single-Node Analytical Model (Rome: IBPSA, 2019). 7 Luís Bragança, Susana M. Vieira, and Joana B. Andrade, “Early Stage Design Decisions: The Way to Achieve Sustainable Buildings at Lower Costs,” Scientific World Journal , no. 2014 (2014), https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/365364. 8 See Dru Crawley and Linda Lawrie’s website Climate.OneBuilding.Org, http://climate .onebuilding.org/. 9 IEA, The Future of Cooling: Opportunities for Energy-Efficient Air Conditioning (Paris: IEA, 2018), https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264301993-en. 232

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