
Aneesh Jain
Xynteo
Manager, Xynteo
Aneesh is currently leading the industrial decarbonisaiton initiatives as Manager at Xynteo, a global sustainability advisory firm helping business advance towards new growth models. Aneesh has more than 12 years of experience in the areas of decarbonisation, sustainability, energy, power markets and renewable energy as a consultant. He specialises in helping businesses plan and execute focussed sustainability strategies and projects. His experience includes working with multinational clients like large utilities, Fortune 500 companies, multilateral donor agencies, state and national governments on large-scale transformation programs. He is currently leading the Build Ahead coalition, an industry-first initiative to accelerate decarbonisation of the construction value chain in India with a focus on embodied carbon in the built environment. Aneesh is a certified CFA Charterholder and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
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Executive Dialogue 6 – Advancing Construction Sector- Decarbonising through Alternate Materials and Demand Optimisation Techniques
New DelhiSession Brief: The construction sector is highly fragmented with different stages, processes and different stakeholders, and each stakeholder has an impact on the GHG emissions in the entire building life cycle. Therefore, to effectively de-risk the sector from climate risks while continuing to innovate and provide a sustainable habitat, greater participation and coordinated action is required from all the key players in the entire value chain. Population and economic growth have fostered urbanisation in India, and the number of urban towns and cities is increasing drastically. This increasing urbanisation is leading to a rampant rise in the construction of buildings and housing projects. According to AEEE’s estimates, India's total building floor area will be around 30 billion m2 by 2038 from 15.8 billion in 2015. This growth would also spur the demand for conventional construction materials like cement, steel, bricks, glass, etc. Yet, these construction materials are highly energy and emissions-intensive and are responsible for the embodied carbon from the building and construction sectors. They must change in the decade of climate action even more so because the embodied carbon content in India’s buildings, especially in residential construction, is much higher; the way we used and still are building needs to change as our PM has pledged to decarbonise its economy by 2070 at COP 26. To fulfil these targets and commitments, it requires a clear and focused strategy with a holistic approach covering all phases of building construction, from the extraction of building raw materials to the disposal and recycling of demolition waste.
This session attempts to address the embodied carbon from the construction sector through discussions around the material efficiency methods in this sector.