In the worldwide effort to limit global warming, the energy transmission and distribution system operators and switchgear manufacturers have been actively looking for medium- and high-voltage switchgear with a lower climate change impact. The first step of this process is the removal of SF6, the...
...levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), primarily induced by increased rates of fossil fuel combustion, are changing the ocean’s chemistry (Guidetti and Danavaro 2018). The resulting increased uptake of more CO2 by the ocean is making the ocean more acidic leading to deleterious harm to marine ecosystems...
Floods and stormwater events are the costliest natural catastrophes. Costs are expected to increase due to urbanization and climate change. Mitigation is needed, and is already ongoing in certain cases. Different stakeholders with different motivations unfortunately often evaluate vulnerability by using...
...on a common set of principles and practices such as active customer engagement in the development process, avoidance of extensive planning in advance, iterative development and continuous testing. Some of the more known and used methods are Extreme Programming, SCRUM and DSDM. These methods may represent...
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has stressed the need to manage and monitor operational and organizational barrier elements. Personnel should understand what barriers have been established and which function they are intended to fulfil, and performance requirements should be defined in respect of the con-crete...