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International research alliance formed to fight climate change
include Arizona State University, California In- stitute of Technology, Nanjing University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
UNSW Climate Change Research Centre Pro- fessor, Matthew England, said worldwide inter- est to act on climate change has been growing but the pace of that change has been far too slow.
He said the alliance aims to accelerate climate action and ensure mitigation efforts are properly factored in with adaptation actions.
Professor England noted that UNSW sur- veys of community attitudes across Australia conducted before the pandemic show that people see climate change as the biggest ongo- ing threat, and most agree a global alliance of universities can help government overcome policy gridlock.
“With various scientific and government- related reports across many nations demon- strating that climate change is causing more extreme events, it is understandable that peo- ple feel frustration about a lack of government policy and leadership in tackling this issue,” England said.
Professor Matthew England
AN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES Cli- mate Alliance (IUCA) has been formed to help accelerate the fight against climate change.
The IUCA comprises 40 of the world’s leading climate research universities in the united goal of ensuring governments, the public, media and industry have better access to research-based facts on climate change science, impacts, adap- tation and mitigation.
UNSW Sydney, which has spearheaded the creation of the alliance to provide evidence- based recommendations to accelerate climate action, is initially coordinating the IUCA with member universities around the world.
UNSW President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs, said the alliance will elevate the voices of exceptional researchers by providing a new, glob- al platform for universities to communicate cli- mate research with authority internationally.
“This new platform is needed now more than ever as the world grapples with providing a coor- dinated approach to tackling climate change,” he said.
Notwithstanding current urgencies around the COVID-19 pandemic, the alliance members decided not to delay the formation of the alliance due to the pressing and ongoing need to acceler- ate climate change mitigation and improve deci- sion making.
An alliance charter is in development and a series of meetings are planned to coordinate the activities of members, which include many of the world’s best climate research institutions across a broad range of disciplines including sci- ence, economics, engineering, law, social sci- ence and planning.
A website has been developed at www.univer- sitiesforclimate.org and some of the universities
Decommissioning HFC based,
air-cooled refrigeration plants
SCANTEC REFRIGERATION, MANAGING
director, Stefan Jensen, will present a seminar on the decommissioning of several existing HFC based, air-cooled refrigeration plants servicing a refrigerated warehouse and replacement of these with a central, low charge, dry expansion, NH3 based refrigeration plant.
The session will draw on comparisons be- tween the recorded energy performances of the new DX, NH3 system and those of the previous HFC based systems.
The analysis will review the supply authority re- cords of the electrical energy consumed by the HFC plant and the consumption records generated us- ing the SCADA system of the new ammonia plant, as well as an economic comparison between NH3 DX and an equivalent transcritical CO2 system.
This session examines a plant servicing a refrigerated warehouse.
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