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03/12/22 06:53 AM IST

Green Cooling report

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  • Investment opportunities in India’s cooling sector through less carbon-intensive technologies could add up to $1.6 trillion (around Rs 1.29 crore), according to a new report released by the World Bank Group.
Major findings 
  • The report analyzed the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP) launched in 2019 and came up with suggestions for prioritizing the government’s investment opportunities in the cooling sector.
  • The report does not focus on air conditioning because only 40% of Indians will have air conditioning by 2040 — which is currently around 8% — and the rest for whom passive cooling technologies have to be the focus.
  • Investment opportunities across three different sectors — construction, cold chains and refrigerants — have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions significantly and also create nearly 3.7 million jobs.
  • Around 34 million people in the country might lose their jobs because of heat stress and subsequent decline in productivity.
  • The world is already on a path where there would be many more intense heat waves like the one India witnessed in 2022
  • Heat stress is set to increase drastically in a world on its way to a two-three degree rise in temperatures.
Recommendations 
  • Sustainable space cooling solutions may reduce annual GHG emissions by 213 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2040.
  • Passive cooling strategies for buildings in cities can reduce energy usage by 20-30% by 2038.
  • Government should include a thermal comfort programme in its affordable housing Programme, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).
  • Thermal comfort through passive cooling technologies in these households could benefit over 11 million urban households and 29 million households in rural areas that the government wants to construct.
  • DCS are centralized cooling techniques for clusters of buildings instead of individual buildings, which is much more efficient.
  • District cooling should be made mandatory for real estate complexes that are of high density.
  • It is suggested to use concessional finance from Multilateral Development Banks like the World Bank for investments in strategies to plug the gaps in the cold chain distribution networks.
ICAP 
  • It seeks to recognize “cooling and related areas” as a thrust area of research under the National S&T Programme.
  • It is part of India’s national strategy for cooling, whose objective is to reduce country-wide demand for cooling by 25 % by 2037-2038.
  • It also seeks to reduce cooling energy requirements by 25% to 40% by 2037-38.
  • Training and certification of 1,00,000 servicing sector technicians by 2022-23, in synergy with Skill India Mission.
Source- DTE 

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