Clean Cool Pune Network

About Clean Cool Pune Network

The Clean Cool Pune Network is envisaged to be a network of a wide range of stakeholders who would like to be involved in building a sustainable and equitable cooling infrastructure for Pune. This first-of-its-kind city-based coalition will be a hub for regular dialogues, networking, informing national policies and prioritising local strategic actions needed to ensure sustainable cooling for all Pune citizens. The Clean Cool Pune Network takes a systemic view of the cooling infrastructure that will involve sectors such as urban planning, food processing, health infrastructure, water supply, transportation, and cooling-related industrial processes while keeping thermal comfort as a core focus. The network will also deliberate on the ways to realise these actions which may include identifying and preparing action plans, demonstration projects, funding strategies, and showcasing local innovations. The network will serve as a collective voice to influence local, state, and national policies or amplify local issues in national and international networks such as the India Cool Coalition or Cool Coalition.

Need for the network

Pune is increasingly witnessing extreme summer temperatures, with evidence suggesting rising annual nighttime temperatures. Pune’s expanding residential, commercial, and industrial sectors are witnessing the uptake of rapid air conditioners/refrigeration/active cooling equipment with mid-range efficiency while giving rise to urban heat islands at multiple spots in the city.
Increasing heat stress disproportionately affects marginalised lower-income communities in the city.
With emerging cooling needs and applications in different sectors, the network will converge the dialogues already occurring within the city of Pune and look for opportunities for potential process integration and cost optimisation.
As many national policies have identified, regular dialogues through this network can identify local implementation issues that has been a barrier for successful national policy implementation.

Vision

To realise a climate-responsive cooling landscape for all that leverages local natural attributes, enhances liveability, and improves Pune's local economic vitality.

Objectives

To encourage stakeholder dialogues to collectively guide, facilitate, and accelerate Pune’s transition towards a sustainable cooling landscape/ecosystem that serves all equitably.
To support national policies such as the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP), Energy Conservation Building Codes (ECBC), and National Mission Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE) by evidencing local issues, opportunities, success stories or learnings linked to sustainable cooling in Pune.
To serve as a platform for knowledge exchange, data repository, innovative technologies, ongoing and completed projects (research or implementation), relevant actors, and domain expertise within the city.
Fourthly, to advocate proactive consideration of cooling needs and heat stress resilience across local city policies and programmes, and in particular to include the needs of marginalised communities.
Lastly, to identify new areas of research, data gaps, demonstration, and joint projects for network members to pursue.

Why should you join

Network with other stakeholders
Get to know about innovative projects in the city
Showcase your ideas and initiatives
Collaborate on joint projects
Advocate with national policy players
Influence policies

Membership

Open to (indicative)

Industry and equipment suppliers
Academia
Think tanks and independent experts
Policymakers and planners
Citizen bodies
Civil society organisations
Real estate developers
Architects and consultants
Start-ups

Key sectors covered

Building decarbonisation and thermal comfort
Urban planning
Transport
Cold chain and refrigeration sustainability
Green energy interventions
Nature-based and passive strategies

Membership

The network can include all stakeholders involved directly or indirectly in the sustainable cooling space in the city of Pune. These can include technology/infrastructure suppliers, current or potential users/beneficiaries, experts, academics, consultants, urban local bodies, energy companies, citizen groups, and civil society organisations.

Membership is currently non-paid. However, the secretariat can include any interested party in the network upon adequate assessment.

Secretariat Contact

The Clean Cool Pune network is a joint initiative between the University of Leeds, UK and Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture For Women, Pune (physical secretariat).

Join the conversation: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12974166/

Write to us: namrata.dhamankar@bnca.ac.in / sbasu3@leeds.ac.uk

Meet the Team

This work is one of four projects supported by Horizon Connect.