Buildings are the biggest, most cost-effective climate mitigation solution available, according to a recent study. And more than one-third of the food produced for human consumption is lost before it can even make it to market, resulting in a significant carbon footprint. Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions, is solving for these challenges through a comprehensive, integrated and growing suite of sustainability solutions and services that allow customers to reach their energy and decarbonization goals.
“Our suite of bespoke sustainability solutions – ranging from energy-efficient products to energy optimization services – are designed to reduce carbon emissions and support healthier communities worldwide,” said Jennifer Anderson, Chief Sustainability Officer, Carrier. “The future demands a decarbonized world and Carrier is ready to advance this mission through a holistic approach that helps our customers meet their sustainability goals and decarbonize at the pace and scale needed to deliver on the Paris Climate Accord.”
Carrier is aiming to reduce its customers’ carbon footprint by more than one gigaton by 2030 in part through a tailored approach for commissioning, specifying equipment and providing assessment services based on each customer’s sustainability, operational and budgetary goals. The approach meets building and cold chain customers where they are within the product lifecycle and capital planning process with expertise and solutions to design, enable and deliver improved sustainability.
Sustainable Buildings
Buildings in the U.S. alone consume approximately 40% of all energy, and within buildings, HVAC systems account for approximately 40% of energy use. Carrier products and services can help building customers achieve their sustainability goals:
- Design:
- Building assessments and sustainability services through NORESCO and EMSI, Carrier businesses that specialize in the development, design, construction and operation of energy and environmental efficiency projects
- Portfolio energy monitoring and thermal mapping
- Enable:
- Products like high-efficiency chillers, heat pumps, and variable refrigerant flow technology that can significantly reduce the environmental impact of heating and cooling
- Digital solutions like Carrier’s Abound digital offering that reduces energy consumption, lowers utility, operating and maintenance costs and improves indoor air quality, occupant comfort and productivity
- Deliver:
- Sustainability-as-a-service that leverages Carrier’s proprietary and award-winning CORTIX AI platform to deliver guaranteed and auditable energy savings and equivalent carbon reduction
- BluEdge connected, condition-based maintenance service
Carrier’s design, enable and deliver approach for buildings is providing AquaForce® high-temperature heat pumpsoperating on ultra-low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant to the City of London for a project expected to reduce carbon emissions of customers by up to 50% and enhance air quality.
Sustainable Cold Chain
While the world produces enough food to feed 10 billion people, one-third or more of it is wasted every year. Carrier is creating a smarter and more connected cold chain and offers products and services that help customers optimize their refrigeration technology and achieve their sustainability goals.
- Design:
- Transport fleet electrification and fuel savings solutions
- Design-to-build natural refrigerant mechanical systems
- Thermal storage and freight-lane mapping
- Enable:
- Natural refrigerant container and commercial systems that reduce food waste, save carbon emissions, and extend the world’s food supply
- High-efficiency transport and commercial refrigeration products
- Low-GWP cold chain solutions
- Deliver:
- Digital solutions like Carrier’s Lynx digital platform that intelligently connects cold chain systems enabling end-to-end visibility improving sustainable operations
- BluEdge connected, condition-based maintenance service
- Digitally enabled greenhouse gas and food waste reduction
Recent solutions include the transcritical CO2 ice making system of the National Speed Skating Oval, known as the “Ice Ribbon,” in Beijing, China. It is the world’s most environmentally responsible ice-making technology with direct carbon emissions close to zero. In post-Olympic operation it is expected to save nearly 2 million kWh of electricity each year.