"Despite these drawbacks, AC remains crucial to protect populations at increased risk from high temperatures, as well as for refrigerating essential medicines and other health-protecting technologies. In the absence of other options, AC – or another equally effective active cooling technology – should be available to those who need it most as if it were a medical necessity."
[1] https://mb.cision.com/Public/15083/4360202/b9c9bce2cff90dee....
AC is in no way mentioned in the linked article or the Call to Action that identifies "4 critical areas of action on caring for the vulnerable".
You unearthed a PDF where air conditioning is mentioned in a QA side note, here's the part you omitted:
> Why doesn’t the WHO just recommend wider use of air conditioning? Air conditioning (AC) is not a sustainable (in time or environmentally) societal solution for reducing hazardous heat exposure. It is inequitable and unaffordable for those with low incomes; it increases energy demands and heightens the risk of blackouts; it may promote individual and societal dependency and overcooling, and may impair heat acclimatization; and it contributes to both the urban heat island effect and climate change, thus worsening heat exposures in the medium and long term.
So maybe, if you are lucky, they allow AC for the most vulnerable with a special exception.
Does this stance sound to you like the UN is making the necessary recommendations to roll out AC widely to protect people?
They are not nearly doing enough. It's like they are not even trying to do their job. I am honestly disgusted by how pathetically incompetent they are.
It was full of claims about air conditioning contributing to global warming or heating up cities, which I would consider in the territory of pseudoscientific idiocy.
So what have they done to address the problem? Put out recommendations to open windows at night?
Because that seems to be the extend of their work. I have not seen them mention any research about air conditioning or its feasibility, so it's unclear to me why you would just assume they did a great job and know what they are doing.