India’s refrigerant transition is accelerating as the country prepares to phase down HFCs under the Kigali Amendment. This session explores policy frameworks, emerging low-GWP refrigerant technologies, and sector readiness, highlighting opportunities and challenges for a smooth, economically viable transition aligned with India’s climate and energy goals.

India’s rapidly growing EV ecosystem for two- and three-wheelers depends on stronger residential charging, especially with the rise of delivery fleets where access remains a critical bottleneck. This session highlights the importance of home charging, the regulatory and infrastructure barriers in housing societies, technology and policy enhancements, and how enabling residential charging can boost fleet efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate last-mile logistics electrification.

This session will set out a clear pathway for scaling efficiency in appliances to support Viksit Bharat. It will outline the actions needed from policymakers, manufacturers, utilities, and industry associations to expand high-efficiency markets, strengthen domestic manufacturing of EE appliances, and unlock demand aggregation. The discussion will also address financing, standards, and supply-chain readiness to align large-scale adoption with national goals on reduced energy intensity and cleaner growth.

This session delves into the critical barriers that hinder large-scale Energy Efficiency (EE) deployment across public systems—particularly municipal water pumping and building cooling. It will highlight innovative financial structures that can make EE interventions bankable and replicable, and explore pathways to unlock sustainable, non-sovereign financing to accelerate adoption.

This session presents insights and findings from a World Bank–funded PMAY study aimed at strengthening the climate resilience and energy efficiency of self-build affordable housing in India. Conducted across six cities, three climatic conditions and four climatic hazards, the study examines how current self-built housing performs, identifies gaps in design and construction practices, and evaluates opportunities to embed low-carbon, climate-resilient solutions. The study maps the existing housing delivery ecosystem, decision points, institutional roles, fund disbursement and contextualises the solutions to achieve resilient self-built homes drawing from 350+ in-field beneficiary interviews with visual surveys, supported by 55+ stakeholder consultations. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion of experts where some of the key challenges on self-built housing and policy recommendations will be discussed.

Precise, problem-driven articulation is critical to accelerate climate-tech innovation in the built environment. It reduces wasted R&D, speeds pilot adoption, lowers market risk, and attracts investors. This session will explore co-developing high-impact problem statements to shorten time-to-market and scale climate-resilient solutions.

Don't just plan it. Build it. Decode the DNA of a District using granular data.
The Challenge
Cities are complex puzzles of energy, heat, and infrastructure. We are opening up our proprietary Geospatial Open Building Stack (GOBS) dataset—a high-resolution database of building attributes available at gobs.aeee.in—and challenging you to de-code these layers.
We challenge you to get hands-on with the data, perform rigorous analysis, and demonstrate technical proofs-of-concept that transform how we plan, power, and protect our urban regions.
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This session explores how high-resolution building data—like the Geospatial Open Building Stack (GOBS)—can transform urban governance. Experts will discuss actionable use cases for energy efficiency, heat resilience, and disaster planning, examining how granular insights can drive policy interventions and decarbonise India’s rapidly growing cities.