Beating the heatwave – thermal comfort in housing
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
A CSE Media Briefing Note
COUNTERING THE HEAT WAVE
Our homes and housing need to be thermally comfortable to be able to
withstand the heat wave – but are they?
Is India’s buildings sector anywhere close to achieving the objectives
of the India Cooling Action Plan 2019?
New Delhi, May 6, 2022
North-western and central India has been reeling under scorching temperatures since March this year. While India recorded its warmest March in the last 122 years, by April, the hilly regions of the country were also engulfed by a severe heat wave. In Himachal Pradesh, there were 21 days of heat waves in March-April 2022, with temperatures rising up to an unprecedented 42.5oC in Una; in Drass (Ladakh, one of the coldest places in the country) the mercury...