About:
- 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 of ICAP is to provide sustainable cooling and thermal comfort for all while securing environmental and socio-economic benefits for the society.
Broad objectives of ICAP:
- Assessment of cooling requirements across sectors in next 20 years and the associated refrigerant demand and energy use,
- Map the technologies available to cater the cooling requirement including passive interventions, refrigerant-based technologies and alternative technologies such as not-in-kind technologies,
- Suggest interventions in each sector to provide for sustainable cooling for all,
- Focus on skilling of RAC service technicians, and
- Develop an R&D innovation ecosystem for indigenous development of alternative technologies.
Targets under ICAP:
- Recognition of “cooling and related areas” as a thrust area of research under national science and technology programme
- Reduction of cooling demand across sectors by 20% to 25 % by year 2037-38,
- Reduction of refrigerant demand by 25% to 30% by year 2037-38,
- Reduction of cooling energy requirements by 25% to 40% by year 2037-38, and
- Training and certification of 100,000 servicing sector technicians by the year 2022-23, in synergy with Skill India Mission.
