US greenhouse gas emissions for 2020 may decrease 11% from their 2019 level mainly due to the recession, reaching 5823.38 Mt CO2e in 2020 (4). This is down by another 9.7% of the 2007 level, bringing the decrease since 2007 to about 21.4%.After Trump, the climate battle will still be challenging US greenhouse gas emission pathways…
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The following is an opinion piece from Jennifer Nielsen and Ed Reichman, co-chairs, SOMA Action Climate Subcommittee: You probably don’t need anything else to be worried about these days, but you should be very worried about plastic.
Speaking at Facilities Show in May, co-located with IFSEC International, Ozge Celik Russell, Senior Analyst, Omdia, presented on how the smart building market is moving forwards since a pause in investment in the pandemic, adding that security will play a significant part in its evolution. Julian Hall reports. For clarity, Ozge opened up the presentation by defining the term ‘smart buildings’ – being those that deliver building services through control systems that manage building operations, known as Building Management Systems (BMS). A BMS is a single, centralised or distributed platform that acts as the building’s artificial intelligence. These systems aggregate data from equipment and sensors across many building domains and identify trends in building use and operations, acting upon the data through programmed sequential algorithms in order to reduce energy consumption, provide security and improve occupant comfort.
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via MOTHERBOARD In the course of the class, students take electronics apart and put them back together in order to build repair manuals so that people can fix their devices instead of throwing them……