Climatic Ep 3.1: Cooling & Smart Buildings Talk Show
Channel: Asian Development Bank
Date: 2022-01-13

Climatic, ADB Ventures’ video series about the Asian entrepreneurs tackling the most important questions of our time, has returned with a new series about cooling and smart buildings.

Over the next three decades, rapid urbanization and greater weather extremes will lead to a skyrocketing demand for cooling. Can this increased energy need be met in a sustainable way? In this new episode, Climatic host Linh Thai explores this question and more with Asia's premiere energy-efficiency experts and entrepreneurs:

- Priyantha Wijayatunga, Chief of Energy Sector Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Dr. Abhinay Bollineni , CEO, KIMS Hospitals
- Arjun Gupta, Founder and CEO of Smart Joules
- Shikha Bhasin, Senior Program Lead, the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEECW)
- Sriram Ravilla, Managing Director, Aravind Eye Hospital - India

Climatic is made possible by a grant from Climate Investment Funds' Clean Technology Fund Program.

0:00 Introduction
1:08 The Complex Relationship between Cooling and Sustainable Development
5:00 Ensuring Equitable Access to Cooling
7:44 Innovative Cooling and Energy Efficiency Business Models
12:31 Energy-Efficiency-As-A-Service in Indian Hospitals
19:02 Conclusion