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India's cooling energy consumption to grow around 2.2 times by 2027: Report.

India, which currently has one of the lowest access to cooling across the world, is poised for rapid and significant growth in cooling demand.

The country's cooling energy demand will rise to 2.2 times the existing level by 2027 and interventions can help cut it down by 17 per cent in the next decade, a report said.

The report, commissioned by the Indo-German Energy Forum, on behalf of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, was prepared by the Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE).
It deep-dives into Indias cooling demand in buildings, mobile air-conditioning, refrigeration, cold-chain and process cooling in industries, and identifies key technological, operational and market interventions for the largest energy and carbon savings in cooling.
It said there is a much-needed recognition of cooling as a developmental imperative, especially in the milieu of the launch of the India Cooling Action Plan (draft) by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in September 2018.
India, which currently has one of the lowest access to cooling across the world, is poised for rapid and significant growth in cooling demand.
While this growth aligns with the country's economic and social development, it will come with adverse impacts in the form of significant additional power generation capacity, peak load impacts and an enormous carbon footprint, it added.
It said Indias cooling energy consumption is expected to grow around 2.2 times in 2027 over the current baseline.
The report suggested that known interventions can help cut down cooling energy consumption by 17 per cent, help avoid around 50 medium-sized power plants dedicated to cooling and reduce cooling-related carbon emission by 20 per cent in the next decade.
It said that space cooling in buildings will continue to dominate India's cooling energy demand at around 60 per cent share and room AC stock-in-use will reach 170 million units in 2027.
Fans and air coolers will consume more electricity than all large AC systems combined in the next decade, it said. (Source: The Business Standard)


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India’s antibiotics consumption shot up by 103% since 2000: study - Pragnya IAS Academy - News Analysis

India’s antibiotics consumption shot up by 103% since 2000: study.

India had the largest increase in antibiotic consumption in low and middle income countries and also surpassed America’s antibiotic consumption rate for oxazolidinones, a last resort class.

India’s antibiotics consumption has increased by 103 per cent from 2000 to 2015, the highest in low and middle-income countries, according to a new study. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study tracked antibiotic consumption in 76 countries and also projected total global antibiotic consumption through 2030.
In fact, increase in global consumption of antibiotics (65 per cent), the cause of growing antibiotic resistance, was led by consumption surge in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The average amount of antibiotics consumed by 1,000 inhabitants in India every day also increased 63 per cent between 2000 and 2015.
Compared to this, antibiotic consumption increased by 65 per cent and the consumption rate per 1,000 inhabitants increased 39 per cent globally.
Down To Earth’s coverage has shown how the increase in antibiotics consumption is worrying as antibiotics unnecessarily expose us to side effects. And each time we use antibiotics, few superbugs, including bacteria, which are able to survive antibiotics, begin to thrive. Over time, the entire population of bacteria is made up only of these superbugs and our antibiotics no longer work.

China and Pakistan were the leading LMIC consuming antibiotics, witnessing a rise of 79 per cent and 65 per cent, respectively.
The antibiotic consumption rate of broad-spectrum penicillins, the most commonly consumed class of antibiotics, increased 36 per cent between 2000 and 2015 globally. The greatest increase was in LMICs (56 per cent). In fact, India surpassed the United States' antibiotic consumption rate for oxazolidinones in 2012 to become the highest consumer, says the study. Oxazolidinones are newer and last-resort antibiotics.


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