India’s global share of AC units to increase 1/4th by 2050

In a business-as-usual scenario, the temperature of the planet will rise by 0.5 degrees through these units alone

What is COVID-19 signaling about building design for healthy living?

The possibility that our air-conditioned and cooled living spaces may make coronavirus comfortable and spread needs to be well understood to spur …

The fault in our stars

ISEER, the new system of rating and labeling ACs that began this year, seems designed to serve industry interest rather than consumer or climate …

Murky science of comfort part 2: Why we feel suffocated in a building even when it is pleasant outside

Humans are built to get used to local environments but unfortunately industry interests have come to define what ‘comfortable’ room …

Not as Cool: Ensure real world energy savings from ACs

With extreme weather events, heat waves and heat island effects becoming common, testing of ACs must become stringent to ensure real world performance

India’s megacities face soaring temperatures brought on by urbanisation

ACs and automobiles are major contributors to what is known as the urban heat trap

Your air-conditioner can't keep you safe from Delhi’s noxious air

Indoor air quality is directly dependent on quality of outdoor air. It's time the aam aadmi came out on the streets to clean up not just …

Too cool for comfort

How rising incomes are lowering room temperatures at the cost of energy, health and comfort

The paradox of cooling

For a tropical country like India, there is not much to cherish about. The number of unbearably hot days experienced by India and Bangladesh will rise

World to need 10 bln-plus more cooling machines: Report

Energy-efficient cooling can help avoid the equivalent 460 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere

Pakistan switches off air-conditioners in government offices

Prescribes summer dress code for employees

COVID-19: What does air-borne transmission mean for air conditioning

Given the evolving nature of advisories, cutting down on use of air-conditioners is the most logical and economic thing to do  

‘Developed nations want India to leapfrog to a technology which even they have not accepted’

With climate change negotiations round the corner, an important debate on the use and phase out of hydrofluorocarbons used as coolant in …

A smart idea

Economic growth has unleashed an enormous appetite for home appliances among the Indian middle class. At their current level of energy efficiency,…