ISHRAE ORGANISED A DAY LONG CONFERENCE ON DECARBONISATION
Delegates pledged to meet the Net Zero Carbonization Goal by 2027
Chandigarh: A day long flagship event – URJAVARAN themed on ‘Exploring Innovation & Collaboration’ deliberating on decarbonization was organized by Chandigarh Chapter of of the Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and AirConditioning Engineers (ISHRAE) at Hotel Lalit, Chandigarh on Saturday. The event brought together top experts from across the country hailing from HVACR and allied building industry, architects, builders, Govt officers, Engineers, Developers, Consultants, Contractors offering a unique opportunity to stay abreast of cutting-edge technology and trends while networking with industry professionals and Govt institutions like PEDA, PGI, IISER, SCL, CSIR, IIT Ropar and others.
While delivering the keynote address, Annel Singh Duggal, President, ISHRAE emphasized the importance of decarbonization initiatives to tackle the challenge of climate change. “A key focus of this conference is on decarbonisation in the air-conditioning and refrigeration industry and creating greater awareness about energy efficiency.,” lauded Mr. Duggal. \
Anant Singh, Convenor was of the opinion that collaboration across the building industry is critical to enable and accelerate progress on climate goals.
Money Khanna, Manager, PEDA informed that the worldwide building sector accounts for about 40 percent of energy-related carbon emissions and buildings remain a major sector that lacks sufficient mitigation policies. He stressed upon the long-standing initiative in energy efficiency should be expanded to building decarbonisation.
URJAVARAN featured insightful sessions and panel discussions on topics such as decoding decarbonisation, integrating passive cooling in urban developments, energy conservation, solar systems, green building and other related topics. Speakers of national repute, including Prabhat Goyal, Vivek Atray, Ashish Rakheja, Gaurav Shorey, Ar Surinder Bahga, Vishal Garg and others shared their insights. The delegates took the pledge to meet the goal of Net Zero Carbonization by 2027 as a goal set by Govt of India.
Team from ISHRAE Chandigarh chapter Pankaj Sareen, Vijay Sharma, Mukul Grover, Vikash Mittal, Raj, Jaspreet, Anuj Agarwal, Cecil Akhai, Deepak Verma, Amardeep Singh and many more attended the dedicated show and they all made a commitment to achieve the Net Zero target and Decarbonization under the banner of ISHRAE.
ISHRAE was founded in 1981 at New Delhi by a group of eminent HVAC&R professionals which now has more than 25000+industry professionals and student-members. ISHRAE operates from 55 Chapters and Sub-Chapters spread all over India, with HQ in Delhi.
