Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and effi cient environments, joined leaders from around the world at the TERI Annual World Sustainable
Development Summit (WSDS) on February 15-17 in New Delhi. Ingersoll Rand, as a co-associate partner of the Summit, led the thematic track “Affordable and Efficient Cooling: Maximizing Climate Benefits with Refrigerant Change.” This thematic track focused on understanding and finalizing the modalities for addressing issues of climate change and how energy efficiency could play a pivotal role in slowing the aftereffects. Randal Newton, vice president of enterprise engineering for Ingersoll Rand, joined experts from environment, energy and sustainability services on the panel, to share views on how to address the demand for cooling (air conditioning) through better designs for buildings, enhancing energy efficiency of air conditioning equipment and systems, and implementing next generation refrigerants that have lower global warming potential without compromising safety, efficiency or performance.

Others speakers and lead discussants included Gyanesh Bharti, Joint Secretary MoEFCC, Dr. Hussamuddin Admadzai, Senior Advisor, Swedish EPA, Saurabh Kumar, Managaing Director, EESL and Dr. Ajay Mathur. Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director General, The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) also shared his thoughts, “The simultaneous adoption of high efficiency compressors and low-GWP refrigerants provides cost saving benefi ts to both users and manufacturers in the short term, and environmental benefits to the world in the mid and long term.” He added, “I don’t think it’s possible to get a better aligned set of incentives – we now need to get the transition underway.”