Four main solar cooling technologies have been developed over the past twenty years are considered in this paper. These technologies include absorption, vapor compression, desiccant, adsorption, etc. All of these solar cooling technologies considered here are solar thermal ones. The destails of the thermodynamic cycle of these solar cooling technologies are given. The general concept of these solar cooling and the relative advantages among them are also presented. At last, the status and outlook for each approach are summarized.