In Burkina Faso, low-cost and inefficient air conditioning units are commonly sold and has an increasing demand due to increasing urbanisation: 32% in 2018, forecast to reach 35% by 2026, and real estate sector development (7.5% per year). The Government of Burkina Faso is committed to reduce energy demand and enhance energy efficiency in the housing sector by decreasing GHG emissions from the cooling of the residential housing sector in cities. This will be achieved through the implementation of architectural and structural solutions in the National Housing Program for 40,000 Housing Units, with the potential to scale up the solutions in housing developments across the country.

The UN Special Adviser on the Sahel, Ibrahim Thiaw, described Africa’s Sahel region as “arguably one of the most vulnerable to climate change where the largest number of people disproportionately affected by global warming”. In the last years, in many households in Burkina Faso, low-cost and inefficient air conditioning units are commonly sold and have an increasing demand due to increasing urbanisation: 32% in 2018, forecast to reach 35% by 2026, and real estate sector development (7.5% per year). 

The Government of Burkina Faso is committed to reduce energy demand and enhance energy efficiency in the housing sector by decreasing GHG emissions from the cooling of the residential housing sector in cities. This will be achieved through the implementation of architectural and structural solutions in the National Housing Program for 40,000 Housing Units, with the potential to scale up the solutions in housing developments across the country.

The Project will contribute to the following outcomes: Improved ease of implementing energy-efficient cooling, strengthened capacity to implement energy-efficient cooling with cost-effective and local solutions, increased demand for efficient cooling in housing. The annual expected emission reductions will average 18,984 tCO2e by the end of the10 year period.

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