INDIA COOLING ACTION PLAN (ICAP)

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.