WGBC Interview Shows the Importance of CaaS for a Net Zero Future
Dominika Czerwinska of the World Green Building Council (WGBC) speaks about why they support Cooling as a Service (CaaS) and the benefits of the BASE-led initiative for building owners and operators.
BASE has published an eight-minute video interview between Carla Della Maggiora, Senior Climate Change Finance Specialist, BASE and Dominika Czerwinska, Director, Membership and Regional Networks. World Green Building Council.
The World Green Building Council (WGBC) catalyses the uptake of sustainable buildings for everyone, everywhere. Transforming the building and construction sector across three strategic areas – climate action, health and wellbeing, and resources and circularity – they are a global action network comprised of around 70 Green Building Councils around the globe.
As members of the UN Global Compact, they work with businesses, organisations and governments to drive the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Through a systems-change approach, their network is leading the industry towards a net zero carbon, healthy, equitable and resilient built environment. That’s why they support the CaaS initiative.
“The CaaS initiative is perfectly aligned with our mission,” explained Czerwinska in the interview. “It not only addresses the need for clean and efficient cooling through a new business model with financial tools that can help recapitalise technology providers to provide cooling as a pay-per-service to their customers, but also, and just as importantly, the model influences the supply chain so that it is of the best interest for many factors of different cooling technologies to design them for reuse instead of obsolescence and therefore they are supporting a more circular economy. By partnering together, we can share this very important solution across our large members network.”
In the video, Czerwinska also talks about the importance of prioritising cooling for buildings to reduce their emissions as well as how CaaS can accelerate transition of the built environment to being net zero across the whole lifecycle. She also spoke about why she would encourage building owners and operators to consider CaaS. “When you engage with CaaS, you reduce the risk of your building under-performing. It reduces the cost and burden of having inefficient or faulty equipment. It saves the building owner from the burden of having to do all the market research for all the technologies and best solutions out there. And it ensures that the service provider has a vested interest in the maintenance and upkeep of cooling equipment in the long-term.”
The interview concluded with a question around CaaS as an interesting solution in a post-COVID recovery period to help buildings reduce their emissions and operating costs.