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Is this the world’s greenest, smartest office building?
Daylight pours into the 15-storey north-facing glass atrium, while solar panels on the southern wall and the roof convert sunlight into energy. The building also uses energy from solar panels located nearby at the University of Amsterdam. Water for heating and cooling is piped to and from an aquifer beneath the building.
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What are heat pumps and how do they work? | World Economic Forum
Researchers found heat pumps were capable of cooling homes in extreme temperatures, and cost $228 less per year than having separate air conditioning and heating systems. The same study said CO2 emissions were cut by around a quarter for the entire home.
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These innovations could keep us cool without heating the planet
The most common air conditioners around the world are room and residential air conditioners (RACs). According to a recent report by RMI, developing countries are going to see a fivefold increase in demand for these entry-level air conditioners over the next three decades. RACs typically contribute indirect and direct emissions - from the ...
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How to build smart, zero carbon buildings | World Economic Forum
Integrating building systems together can yield incremental energy savings of 8-18% over basic HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) and lighting control. Energy Information Management Systems that use advanced metering infrastructure and monitor the end use in buildings save 3% on average, while automated fault detection and diagnostics can save an average of 9% in energy use.
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Air conditioning is threatening our ability to tackle climate change ...
How air conditioning is posing a challenge for efforts to tackle climate change? Meanwhile, there has been an increasing amount of attention paid to the massive climate risk posed by one mundane and increasingly ubiquitous household technology: the air conditioner.
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Indoor air pollution: What causes it and how to tackle it
A critical aspect of this effort is addressing air pollution on a global scale. Launched at COP26 by the World Economic Forum, Clean Air Fund and Stockholm Environment Institute, the Alliance for Clean Air brings together business leaders to prioritize air quality, reduce emissions and drive impactful action in the climate movement.
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Climate change: Is air conditioning bad for the environment? | World ...
An alternative approach to the current provision of cooling by traditional air conditioning is that of “sustainable cooling”. By this, we mean the provision of cooling in a manner that maximises its contribution to the SDGs – for example, by minimising health impacts from extreme heat, reducing greenhouse gases, avoiding food loss, and reducing societal inequalities.
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Hot air behind your cold fridge? Why the future of cooling must be ...
Cooling appliances such as ACs consume energy and emit heat while running. Anyone who has ever put their hand behind their fridge knows what I’m talking about. In turn, these heat gains add to air-conditioning demand. This dynamic, combined with the rising demand for cooling, drives up both power needs and CO2 emissions.
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Decarbonizing heating and cooling tech for a net-zero world
Trane Technologies' building energy management analysis, combined with data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), Project Drawdown, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and other third-party sources, shows that 15% of global carbon emissions comes from heating and cooling buildings specifically, while another 10% comes from food loss and ...
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How sustainable cooling could help combat the climate crisis | World ...
Cooling technologies like refrigeration and air-conditioning could account for two-fifths of Southeast Asia’s electricity demand by 2040, according to a report called Freezing in the tropics: Asean’s air-con conundrum. Rapid growth in economic output, wealth and population density, and increasing migration to cities prompts heavy reliance on cooling solutions in the burgeoning economies of ...
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