Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy hosts Forum on Energy Efficiency and Decarbonisation 2022

Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE) curated the Forum for Energy Efficiency and Decarbonisation (FEED) 2022, a platform to bring together thought leaders and industry experts. The forum aimed to build a dialogue towards enabling India to become an energy-efficient economy.

This year’s event focuses on decarbonising India’s economy through sectoral collaboration and cooperation, with particular focus on construction sector, power sector, transportation, digitalisation of energy systems, and sustainable cooling solutions.

India’s economy has steadily grown at the rate of ~6.5% over the last two decades, and as our economy grows, so does our need for energy. An expanding economy, population, urbanisation and industrialization mean that India’s energy demand will continue to rise. India is in a unique position to pioneer new models of net-zero, low-carbon, and inclusive growth leading to just transition.

The aim for this year’s forum was to reduce the carbon intensity of India’s economy to less than 45 per cent by 2030, deliver 1 billion tons of CO2 emissions and enable a net-zero carbon economy – three pillars from the Panchamrit declaration made by our honourable PM at COP26 in Glasgow.

Dr. Satish Kumar, Executive Director and President, AEEE said “FEED serves as a platform to bring together eminent industry experts, thought leaders and decision-makers across private, public and non-profit sector to transform carbon reduction pledges into action against the backdrop of the ambitious Panchamrita commitments made by India’s PM at COP26.”
 
Dr. Brian Motherway, Head of the Energy Efficiency Division, International Energy Agency (IEA) said, “It is great to see energy efficiency measures become a part of the Union Budget released this year. It is commendable that India is moving towards net zero emission rapidly. What stands out about Energy Efficiency is that it makes peoples lives better, it doesn’t just reduce energy usage and emission, it creates jobs, lowers energy bills, it makes homes more comfortable, makes schools have a better learning environment, hospitals have a healthier environment; all of these are benefits that energy efficiency can bring directly to all of us as citizens.”
 
The unique hybrid event was spread across two days and witnessed over 1000 registrations and 65 speakers from a gamut of sectors including public, private, government, multilateral and bilateral organization.