Climate change issues and solutions

1. Emerging trends and practices in Environmental Conservation
Dharmesh Gohel
5-6 June 2022

2. I hate something and the reason love to talk about it………
The IFC Mall in Hong Kong is
800,000 square feet and has
over 200 stores.
One of the coldest place in
Hong kong…
where person has to put a
coat , while outside its
melting with heat……
Malls that didn’t have air
conditioning would be
judged as “more primitive”
The warmer it gets, the more we use air conditioning. The more we use air conditioning, the warmer it gets.
Is there any way out of this trap?
• It’s estimated that air conditioning in Hong Kong makes up as much as 30% of all
electricity used in the city each year, and that number skyrockets to as much as
60% during the summer, according to Time Out HK.
• On a regular day, New York City demands around 10,000MW every second; during
a Heatwave, that figure can exceed 13,000MW. “Do the math, whatever that gap
is, is the AC.
• In Beijing, during a heat wave, 50% of the power capacity was going to air
conditioning (IEA).
• In 2006, equipment failure left 175,000 people in Queens without power for a
week, during a heat wave that killed 40 people
The world is closing, our hearts are closing, our doors are closing how big our garden is but our windows are closing…….So
what we need is to open …… lets open to agree with, what at times disagree, let look back to our past for better future,
for solutions…. Lets open windows of our houses and hearts for fresh air….lets open up for change….
International Energy Agency (IEA)

4. The solutions that we reach for most easily only bind us closer to
the original problem…..
• As the world gets hotter,
scenes like these will
become increasingly
common.
• Buying an air conditioner is
perhaps the most popular
individual response to
climate change.
• Air conditioners are almost
uniquely power-hungry
appliances: -running four
fridges.
• There are just over 1bn single-room air conditioning
units in the world right now –1:7
• Numerous reports have projected that by 2050
there are likely to be more than 4.5bn.
• The US already uses as much electricity for air
conditioning each year as the UK uses in total.
• It is estimated it will use about 13% of all electricity
worldwide and.
• Produce 2bn tonnes of CO2 a year – about the
same amount as India.
Originally AC’s were built for industrial use, air conditioning eventually came to be
seen as essential, a symbol of modernity and comfort
International Energy Agency (IEA)

6. • In the 1990s, many countries across Asia opened up to foreign
investment and embarked on an unprecedented urban building
spree.
• Over the past three decades, about 200 million people in India
have moved to cities; in China, the number is more than 500
million.
• From New Delhi to Shanghai, heavily air-conditioned office
buildings, hotels and malls began to spring up.
• So these were the trends which is and has created the problems.
Trends - We simply built and relied on technology to fix it later
So we all are here to talk about the
emerging trends….I simply laughed
and I told Dr. Mamta, I really don’t
know what to talk, and she replied
no worries you will rock.
So I feel trends are always to rock
and when we say trends…it tends
to end and new one comes…..So
we can say trends are short lived?
Tradition then the Trends – should be the theme for
climate change
Rajasthan is the finest example of the perseverance and best of the structures
in the world, who never used to have such issues with the climate.

7. One plus One is 2 or 11
• Professor Andrew Millison of Oregon University- USA has compiled 5 Most Epic Earth healing Projects…
• Of these 5 epic projects 3 are in India and 2 in Rajasthan.
• What they restored is entire Biodiversity loss, created water storages, land reclaim, reversed deforestation
and they were done at epic scale helping millions of people and spices.
• Arvari River restoration – this river was dry for 60 years – water man of India in 1986 through - Tarun Bharat
Sangh – changed everything at scale, they simply build johads, johads and johads and in 9 years 375 johads
were build and that river become perennial again. Today its spread across 500 sq km with 9000 water
harvesting structure.
• Gravis jodhpur – can be seen from space – started in 1983 – 1500 avillages – 1.3 million people – but it
took 40 years.
• Panni foundation – 2016- 2020 – 10045 billion Gallon litres of water harvested - 550 billion litres water
storage capacity created in 4 years.
Sugar Found In Ocean Bed Equivalent to "32 Billion Cans Of Coke": Seagrass meadows are extremely
efficient at capturing carbon, and are one of the worlds top carbon capturing ecosystems.

8. Extreme heat and humidity could put millions of lives
and billions of dollars at risk across India.
Source: Woods and Hole research Centre: McKinsey Institute Analysis

9. Climate risk and Socio-economic –Impacts
• The level of physical climate risk increases by 2030 and
further by 2050.
• The socioeconomic impact of between roughly two
and 20 times by 2050 versus today’s levels.
• Some countries simultaneously benefit some regions
while hurting others- Tourism/Agriculture.
• Companies and communities - Adaptation is going to
be costly with tough choices.
• A part form the Physical assets damaged or destroyed
by extreme precipitation, tidal flooding, forest fires,
Natural capital, in forms of glaciers, forests, and ocean
ecosystems, - services to human communities.
Climate science says further warming can only be stopped by
achieving zero net greenhouse gas emissions.
Source: Joint Research Centre Damage Functions Database, McKensey Infrastructure Benchmarks costs, MGI analysis: lower graphs: Henneaux, 2015 Korres et al, 2016.
35°C wet-bulb a healthy human being can survive, resting in the shade, for approximately
five hours but longer exposure increase mortality risk for the sick and elderly.

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