Project Drawdown is viewed as “the most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming”. It lists climate change solutions in terms of “greatest potential to reduce emissions or sequester carbon from the atmosphere”. The “Drawdown” reference in the title is in relation to the world reaching a point called climate drawdown, which is described as the point when greenhouse gas concentration level off and steadily decreases on an annual basis.
Who is behind Project Drawdown?
The New York Times bestseller “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming” explains how back in 2001, Paul Hawken, a climate scientist started asking the galling question “Do we know what to do to arrest global warming?”. By asking this question of his peers the genesis of Project Drawdown was created. Project Drawdown now consists of over 70 individuals from twenty-two countries, who are known as “Drawdown fellows”. These “fellows” are mainly researchers and scientists who work in some of the worlds most respected institutions. In essence some of the most adept minds in the world are behind Project Drawdown.
What are the top 5 solutions to climate change?
Project Drawdown lists “Refrigeration” as the number one solution to climate change. This is followed by wind turbines, Reduced Food Waste, plant rich diets and the land use of tropical forests.
Refrigeration
Dr. Mario Jose Molina Henriquez, a Nobel prize winner for chemistry and part of Project Drawdowns team of “Drawdown fellows” explains how hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants have the capacity to warm the atmosphere is by up to nine thousand times greater than CO².
The Kigali amendment to the Montreal protocol means high income countries will start phasing out HFC’s in 2019, low-income countries will follow in 2024 and 2028. The main difference between Kigali and the Paris agreement is that the Kigali deal is mandatory and trade sanctions will be enforced on countries who fail to comply.
Why does this matter?
Removing climate changing HFC’s will reduce global warming by nearly 1° Fahrenheit, according to expert scientists.
Why are HFC’s continuing to cause climate change?
Gas refrigerant leakage throughout a freezer life cycle combined with poor practice in regards end of life disposal is where the real damage to the environment is done.
How can Novums LEAP™ technology help?
Project Drawdown states that the phasing out of HFC’s could avoid “emissions equivalent to 25 to 78 gigatons of CO². All Novum freezers use environmentally friendly R290 natural refrigerant, with no greenhouse effect. Novums cassettes use a mere 2.3 oz of natural refrigerant which is phenomenally less expensive than the cost of HFC’s in remote systems, even before the cost of leakage repairs is taken into consideration(10-25% leakage rate of high cost HFC refrigerant).
Reduced Food Waste
According to Project Drawdown reduced food waste is the number 3 climate change solution. A startling finding is that food waste contributes “4.4 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere each year” which is “roughly 8 percent of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions”. One of the contributors to food waste is poor refrigeration equipment.
With Novum freezers, which are powered by game changing LEAP™ technology, the rare breakdowns can be remedied within 10 minutes with removable cassette technology, there is no need to de-merchandise freezers to carry out traditional defrosts. There is zero frosting and shrinkage of frozen food product in Novum LEAP™ enabled freezers.
All the factors above result in zero food waste from Novum LEAP™ enabled freezers.
“Novum is in a prime position to fight against climate change by producing not only the most energy efficient freezers on the market, (which translates into significant monetary savings) but freezers which use natural, environmentally friendly refrigerant. The is the number 1 climate change solution.
As a green, clean, sustainable refrigeration solutions provider, we at Novum greatly admire the seismic body of work being carried out by the Project Drawdown team, which if implemented, has the potential to save the planet from the catastrophic effects of climate change” Jim Greene, CEO. Novum
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