Tag: CERN and the environment
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CERN publishes its environment report for 2021–2022
The report highlights progress and areas for future development in CERN’s ongoing efforts to minimise its environmental footprint
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CERN publishes its environment report for 2021–2022
The report highlights progress and areas for future development in CERN’s ongoing efforts to minimise its environmental footprint
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CERN energy management: a collective effort
Find out how we can all help to improve CERN’s energy performance
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Carbon dioxide for the environment
Following the completion of a successful in-house development phase, CERN is equipping the ATLAS and CMS detectors with new carbon dioxide (CO2) cooling systems that will contribute to the transition towards green and sustainable technology in this area
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CERN marks World Environment Day with a new video
Monday 5 June marked the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day, one of the United Nations’ vehicles for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment
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Managing energy responsibly: CERN is awarded ISO 50001 certification
CERN’s accelerators are responsible for most of its energy consumption. As powerful research instruments, these machines make a unique scientific programme possible and support a global community of scientists. CERN makes every effort to run them in the most energy-efficient way possible. Powering CERN’s unique array of accelerators, detectors and infrastructure primarily needs electricity, which
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Bringing students and experts together around environmental applications of accelerators
The I.FAST project’s yearly student challenge was held this summer, exploring environmental and societal applications of accelerator technology
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Winner of the “Mining the Future” competition announced
From brick-building to online flow analyses, ideas abound for sustainable reuse of excavated material from a tunnel for a potential future CERN facility thanks to the “Mining the Future” competition held as part of the FCC Innovation Study.
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CERN to implement additional energy-saving measures for 2022–2023
In light of the current global energy supply and cost crisis, and as part of its social responsibility, CERN will be implementing measures that will significantly reduce the Laboratory’s energy consumption in 2022 and 2023