• India is the first country in world to develop such a document (ICAP), which addresses cooling requirement across sectors and lists out actions which can help reduce the cooling demand.
• The overarching goal is to provide sustainable cooling and thermal comfort for all while securing environmental and socio-economic benefits for the society.

About India Cooling Action Plan(ICAP):

• The thrust of the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP) is to look for synergies in actions for securing both environmental and socio-economic benefits. "The overarching goal of ICAP is to provide sustainable cooling and thermal comfort for all while securing environmental and socio-economic benefits for the society.

The India Cooling Action seeks to

• reduce cooling demand across sectors by 20% to 25% by 2037-38
• reduce refrigerant demand by 25% to 30% by 2037-38
• Reduce cooling energy requirements by 25% to 40% by 2037-38
• recognize "cooling and related areas" as a thrust area of research under the national S&T Programme
• training and certification of 100,000 servicing sector technicians by 2022-23, synergizing with Skill India Mission. These actions will have significant climate benefits.

Benefits:

• Thermal comfort for all - provision for cooling for EWS and LIG housing.
• Sustainable cooling - low GHG emissions related to cooling
• Doubling Farmers Income - better cold chain infrastructure - better value of products to farmers, less wastage of produce.
• Skilled workforce for better livelihoods and environmental protection.
• Make in India - domestic manufacturing of air-conditioning and related cooling equipment's.
• Robust R&D on alternative cooling technologies - to provide the push to innovation in a cooling sector