🌟🇮🇳 UNEP India Cooling Program in partnership with IFC - International Finance Corporation has successfully organized a series of roundtables across #Delhi, #Jaipur, and #Mumbai. These events brought together real estate developers and financial institutions to discuss the business case and #financing for passive and #energyefficient #cooling in #healthcare, #commercial, and #residential #construction. 📊 UN Environment Programme and IFC teams presented their initiatives aimed at accelerating financing and enhancing private sector capacity for sustainable cooling in India. Passive cooling is crucial to building resilience against extreme heat. 🔥 As highlighted by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in his Call to Action on Extreme Heat, over the past year (July 2023 to July 2024), we have experienced extreme temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius, leading to more frequent and severe #heatwaves across the Indian subcontinent. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have estimated that "90% of [India] is at extremely cautious or dangerous levels of adversely impacting adaptive livelihood capacity, food grains yield, vector-borne disease spread, and urban sustainability." 🙏 Thank you to all our participants for their enthusiasm! We are grateful to the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, IFC, and EDGE Green Buildings India teams for their constructive partnerships that enabled these exciting exchanges. A special thanks to our IFC colleagues Rusmir Musić, Sahil Priyadarshi (Jaiswal), Autif Sayyed and Aafsha Kansal for leading the organization of the roundtables. 🌱 UNEP's India Cooling Program is dedicated to strengthening policies, designing finance mechanisms, and supporting real estate capacity for the rapid adoption of thermal comfort and #passivecooling, while pushing for the smooth implementation of the India Cooling Action Plan. India Cooling Action Plan: https://lnkd.in/g48BYm8G Find out more about our work: https://lnkd.in/eQBZ4APW #SustainableCooling #ClimateAction #IndiaCoolingProgram #UNEP #IFC #ExtremeHeat #ClimateResilience #RealEstate #EnergyEfficiency #Partnerships
Angshuman Das
2mo
Cool Coalition, commendable work by the UNEP India Cooling Program and IFC! The focus on passive and energy-efficient cooling is essential for India's resilience against extreme heat, especially as we face increasingly severe climate challenges. Looking forward to seeing how these initiatives continue to drive change across India. #SustainableCooling #IndiaCoolingActionPlan Benjamin Hickman
# troubleshooter in bringing efficiency to its potential(maximum) in HVAC and other energy wasting applications, # specialized at room air conditioning # opportunity to establish energy efficiency programs center.
2moThe present Cooling Programs initiated now should have been beneficial to the users of air conditioner and the Nations. Introducing a non achievable cooling programs or pledges may neither benefits the Nation nor the air conditioning users. Sidelining Science should not be our motive. You may kindly note, Incorporation scientific models only may provide lead for the progress of the Cooling Programs. Darkness can only be removed with the help of light (Science). Ignoring such important matters may never benefit anybody with the proposed Cooling Programs.