{"id":216717,"date":"2022-12-01T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216717"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T13:47:45","slug":"over-160-200-million-indians-could-be-exposed-to-lethal-heat-waves-annually-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/over-160-200-million-indians-could-be-exposed-to-lethal-heat-waves-annually-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 160-200 million Indians could be exposed to lethal heat waves annually: World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cOver 160-200 million Indians could be exposed to lethal heat waves annually: World Bank\u201d<\/b> published in <\/span>The Hindu <\/b>on 1st December 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The World Bank has released a report titled <\/span>\u201cClimate Investment Opportunities in India\u2019s Cooling Sector\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the key findings of the report?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Impact of Higher Temperatures on India<\/b>: By 2030, over 160-200 million people across the country could be exposed to lethal heat waves annually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Around 34 million people in India will face job losses due to heat stress-related productivity decline.<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to this, by 2037, the demand for cooling is likely to be eight times more than current levels. This means there will be a demand for a new air-conditioner every 15 seconds leading to an expected rise of 435% in annual greenhouse gas emissions over the next two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recognizing this challenge, India is already deploying new strategies to help people adapt to rising temperatures. In 2019, India launched the <\/span>India Cooling Action Plan(ICAP).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The report proposes a roadmap to support ICAP through new investments in three major sectors: Building construction, Cold chains and Refrigerants.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the roadmap suggested by the report in these three major sectors?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Building construction:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, <\/b>adopt climate-responsive cooling techniques as a norm in both private and government-funded constructions. This can ensure that those at the bottom of the economic ladder are not disproportionately affected by rising temperatures.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The report suggests that India\u2019s affordable housing program for the poor, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(PMAY) can adopt such changes on a scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondly<\/b>, enact a policy for district cooling which could lead to the consumption of 20-30% less power than the most efficient conventional cooling solutions. District cooling technologies generate chilled water in a central plant which is then distributed to multiple buildings via underground insulated pipes. This brings down the cost for providing cooling to individual buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fix Gaps in Cold Chains Network:<\/b> To minimize rising food and pharmaceutical wastage during transport due to higher temperatures, the report recommends fixing gaps in cold chain distribution networks. Investing in pre-cooling and refrigerated transport can help decrease food loss by about 76% and reduce carbon emissions by 16%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Refrigerants:<\/b> India aims to phase out the production and use of ozone-depleting hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) which are used as coolants in air conditioners and refrigerators by 2047.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The report recommended improvements in servicing, maintenance and disposal of equipment that use HCFCs alongside a shift to alternative options with a lower global warming footprint.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 This can create 2 million jobs for trained technicians over the next two decades and reduce the demand for refrigerants by around 31%.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cOver 160-200 million Indians could be exposed to lethal heat waves annually: World Bank\u201d published in The Hindu on 1st December 2022. What is the News? The World Bank has released a report titled \u201cClimate Investment Opportunities in India\u2019s Cooling Sector\u201d. What are the key findings of… Continue reading Over 160-200 million Indians could be exposed to lethal heat waves annually: World Bank<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,1305,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-216717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700798565,"cached_date":1704920899},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}