Australia Air conditioning is generally not a substantial issue in Australian politics, as a large majority of citizens have adopted it. As of August 2025, the only major party to explicitly support the mass adoption of air conditioning is France's right-wing populist
National Rally, with leader
Marine Le Pen calling on the nation to have a plan to widely adopt air conditioning in the coming years. The homeware retail chain
Robert Dyas said that from 2019 to 2024, its stores had seen a 4,000 percent increase in the sale of fans and air-conditioning units.
United States , 88% of US households had some form of air conditioning, with prevalence being highest in the
Midwestern and
Southern United States. Within metropolitan areas, air conditioning is more prevalent in
suburbs than the
urban core, even though temperatures in the core tend to be elevated due to the
heat island effect. In many parts of the US, state or local laws require landlords to heat rental properties above a specified minimum temperature during winter months; however, relatively few jurisdictions have corresponding laws to cool properties below a maximum temperature during summer months. Moreover, some landlords entirely ban air conditioning from their rental properties, although some municipalities have passed laws to forbid this. == References ==