During the latest EU Environment Council, which took place September 18, 2015, the Ministers reached an important agreement on what is going the be the EU’s position for the 21^st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21), which will be held in Paris from November 30 to December 11, 2015.

The agreement highlights the strong will to take the necessary measures towards reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and, from a more general point of view, to prevent global warming from reaching dangerous levels.

Carole Dieschbourg, the Luxembourg Minister who chaired the Council, points out that the EU’s Ministers adopt a strong, ambitious and responsible European mandate that will allow EU to play as a leader during the COP21, as it is our responsibility to achieve a positive result in Paris with one strong voice.

The Dieschbourg’s statements are echoed by Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, who welcomes the adoption of a long-term goal, towards which we are working together.

To achieve a global transition to a low greenhouse gas and climate resilient society, greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced by at least 50% by 2050 (compared to 1990 levels) and to be near zero by 2100. The European Council emphasizes the need for all Parties to submit new commitments every five years, in order to have what Dieschbourg calls clear review cycles, which, according to Cañete, will help to examine the situation and to strengthen the objectives for emissions in the light of the recent scientific developments.

The EU Environment Council also recognises the crucial role of climate finance and is determined to do its part to mobilise, from 2020, 100 billion USD annually from both public and private sources to support developing countries to reduce emissions.

Many other issues were discussed and agreed upon during the Environment Council, such as the creation of a market stability reserve for the EU ETS (emission trading scheme): http://www.e7*u2015lu.eu/en/actualites/communiques/2015/09/18-conseil-envi-eu-ets/index.html 

Read here the full articles:

http://ec.europa.eu/clima/news/articles/news_2015091801_en.htm

http://www.eu2015lu.eu/en/actualites/articles-actualite/2015/09/18-conseil-envi/index.html

A very special project was developed by Geoclima, together with partner Cool-Therm, for two brand-new exclusive buildings in the City of Westminster. The buildings are very high end residential apartments with £1m value each and will be located on different sides of the road. The building construction has begun and project completion is expected for late 2016.

For this project, Geoclima designed and developed two 900 kW air cooled Turbomiser chillers, providing 1.8 MW of total cooling capacity. The chillers are equipped with silencers installed on the top of the fans, so as to reduce noise emissions and to meet the client’s specific acoustic requirements. In addition to that, we also designed an extra lower framework to allow pipework to be installed in the base of the chillers.

The chillers are designed to provide cooling capacity for both buildings and the cooling infrastructures are linked together.

The project was very challenging as it required the customization of the plant not only in terms of performance but also in terms of structural issues.

The two Turbomiser air cooled chillers with silencers have just been installed on the roof the building but are meant to be commissioned in early 2016.