Press Release, ZAWYA
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Dubai, UAE: Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower), the world’s largest district cooling services provider, is reaffirming its commitment to cut cooling emissions in response to the fresh strides made by UN Environment. In a recent statement, the global environmental authority has announced new developments in the efforts to curtail cooling and heating emissions worldwide. The very latest is that the UN Environment plans to support new district cooling projects in India and in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of its ‘District Energy in Cities Initiative’.
Over the last few years, UN Environment has cautioned that the expansion of middle class in developing economies will place heavy demands on heating and cooling systems worldwide — particularly as temperatures across the planet climb to unprecedented, dangerous highs — and will result in ballooning the greenhouse gas emissions. According to the organisation, traditional cooling systems consume over 50 per cent of building energy, as well as run on the excessive use of fossil fuels, that further exacerbates rising the planet’s temperature.
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