Scalable green cooling solutions key to attracting climate adaptation funding: Singapore panel

A panel hosted by The Straits Times discussed how cooling innovations like heat-reflective paint and gel-based cooling garments need to be scalable and low-carbon to attract investment. Panellists noted that investors increasingly prioritize solutions that reduce both heat exposure and carbon emissions, such as Entropy Lab's paint that cools buildings by up to 5 degrees Celsius and cuts air-conditioning energy use. Philanthropic capital is critical for early-stage de-risking, but funding gaps persist due to underdeveloped policy, limited local climate data, and mismatches between solutions and available finance. The panel highlighted that heat stress is now the top climate concern among Singaporeans, and that without scalable deployment, vulnerable groups will bear the worst impacts.