Decarbonising heating and cooling integral to reaching net zero targets, says Glasgow industrial engineering leader
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Essential to our everyday life, the cold chain (food production and storage), pharmaceuticals, data centres, comfort cooling and heating are both omnipresent and destructive.
Key Points:
- Essential to our everyday life, the cold chain (food production and storage), pharmaceuticals, data centres, comfort cooling and heating are both omnipresent and destructive.
- In fact cooling and heating are estimated to account for around half of the end-use energy worldwide and 40% of its energy-related global carbon dioxide (CO2) emission.
- More measures to avoid locking-in higher emissions are required in this area to help countries move towards carbon neutral heating and cooling.
- Furthermore, if powered by renewable electricity, both refrigeration systems and heat pumps offer low cost, zero carbon heating and cooling".