Energy efficiency as a way to sustainability

We live a unique moment in humanity’s recent history. The world fights a global epidemic, but at the same time other issues also need our attention, because of their impact on our lives and our future. One of them is the theme chosen by the United Nations (UN) to celebrate the date this year, which is biodiversity, a call to action to combat the accelerating species loss and degradation of the natural world. 

Around 1 million plants and animal species are at risk of extinction in the world, largely due to human activity, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Many factors impact biodiversity and one of them is climate change, which has everything to do with energy consumption. That’s because one of the ways to fight global warming is reducing energy consumption through energy efficiency. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal number 7 (Affordable and clean energy), by the way, has as one of its goals to double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030. 

Energy efficiency has been our motivation and obsession. It is one of the main compressor performance level indicators and, has become the main driver to product development in factories. Besides that, other drivers also contribute to reducing environmental impact, such as manufacturing smaller products, which uses less raw material and reduces costs in production, assembly and logistics. 

A cleaner and more sustainable tomorrow is connected to the development of advanced engineering so that energy can be used more intelligently every day, contributing in the fight against climate change and, as a consequence, to the preservation of species and quality of life on our planet.