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The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) and the Port Authority of Cartagena (APC) will register their carbon footprint, as announced today by their respective leaders during the Environment Chair held this morning and in the that the prizes have been awarded to the best final degree projects and masters of students of the Mare Nostrum Campus that contribute ideas of sustainability to the Port and its surroundings.
Both awards have fallen to students of the School of Naval and Oceanic Engineering of the UPCT.
The Alicante Natalia García Esquiva, employed in the shipyards of Navantia, has collected the award for the best TFM for its proposal to use renewable energy to provide power to ships while they are docked in the port, preventing them from using their auxiliary combustion engines to feed their supplies and eliminating 10,500 annual tons of C02 per year in Cartagena.
The winner of the prize for the best TFG, Antonio Gallardo, could not attend because he was working in England.
Climate change, carbon footprint and environmental responsibility in companies have been the topics addressed by the Interuniversity Chair CMN-APC and the European project Life Forest CO2 and inaugurated by the rector of the UPCT, Alejandro Díaz , the president of the APC, Joaquín Segado, and the delegate in matters of Social Responsibility of the University of Murcia, Longinos Marín.
The Rector of the Polytechnic has also announced the incorporation of the UPCT to the European consortium of the Life Forest CO2 project.
Several speakers have shown the procedures, benefits and opportunities represented by calculating, reducing and compensating the carbon footprint, in favor of a sustainable future, which allows society to evolve towards an economic model detached from greenhouse gas emissions.
The Department of Environment Port Authority of Cartagena-Campus Mare Nostrum was created in 2015 with the aim of establishing a permanent structure of collaboration between the Port Authority and the two public Universities of the Region, to develop research activities, transfer, technical assistance and training in environmental matters by the research groups of both universities, with room for other Research Centers, professionals or collaborating entities in this field.
The Life Forest CO2 project, coordinated by the Office of Socioeconomic Promotion of the Environment of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, and involving 6 partners distributed between Spain and France is a European project whose mission is to promote the sustainable management of forests as a tool to mitigate climate change, and that already has the participation of 18 companies and organizations in Spain and France that have begun to work on the decarbonisation of their activities through good environmental practices and environmental compensation in forest carbon sinks.
Source: UPCT
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