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• HPP Research Awards Will Recognize Pioneering Research and Innovation by Students and Food Scientists During HPP Innovation Week 2024, Online Conference, June 18-20
  MIAMI, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Hiperbaric, celebrating 25 years as the world leader in High Pressure Processing (HPP) technology , announced the launch of the HPP Research Awards , a global initiative to spotlight and promote cutting-edge research by students and researchers harnessing the power of high pressure for food and beverage applications.
• HPP is a nonthermal food preservation technology that uses cold water and high pressure to inactivate food-borne pathogens and spoilage microorganisms.
• The HPP Research Awards are open to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers worldwide who have completed HPP-related food research projects between 2019-2024.
• The HPP Research Awards ceremony will take place on June 19, during the second day of HPP Innovation Week, providing a unique platform for the winners to showcase their work.

• The problem is, communities are often not sold on having to host new transmission lines.
• In my research, I work with RE-Alliance, a community organisation working to help local communities actually benefit from the energy transition.
• Projects are much more likely to succeed when communities feel the project is theirs or includes them.

Community pushback could scupper the green transition

• Around 300 wind, solar and transmission projects are being delayed by local opposition, stalling A$132 billion of investments and 74,000 jobs.
• Communities can bristle if they feel a project is imposed on them – especially if it feels like a cost without benefits.
• Developers who engage with communities from the beginning and work to tackle concerns and issues collectively have a better chance of success.

Focus on local benefits

• But some local residents are strongly sceptical of transmission projects, which means some renewable projects can’t proceed.
• As the organisation’s CEO Chris Souness told me:
  Renewable energy will thrive [in this region] if developers and communities collaborate, the interests of the farming communities and rural towns are supported, and the benefits flow to communities.
• Renewable energy will thrive [in this region] if developers and communities collaborate, the interests of the farming communities and rural towns are supported, and the benefits flow to communities.
• Others worried wind and solar farms could damage the local environment.

How do we do better when time is so short?

• The conundrum we face is we know we need to do better, but we have only a narrow window of time to green the grid.
• One avenue is to focus on the long-term prosperity of these projects, both for landowners hosting them and for the broader community.
• For farmers battling increasingly volatile growing and grazing conditions due to climate change, renewables offer new income streams.

• The federal government must find ways of better communicating their plans at local level.
• Explain why we need to do this, what the benefits are to communities, and why transmission is key.
• The government could consider a CSIRO-based research centre focused on environment, technology and social outcomes in the energy transition.

Dr Simon Wright is a member of RE-Alliance, a not-for-profit renreable advocacy organisation focused on the clean energy transition in the regions.

• Where: Hilton Sydney , 488 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
  Slowing growth, persistent high inflation, scarce expensive talent and global supply constraints continue to add pressure and drive volatility for CFOs and finance executives.
• The conference agenda is split into four tracks , one for each role:
  Gartner Opening Keynote: The Human CFO: Leading in the Face of Perpetual Disruption with Gartner vice president analyst Nisha Bhandare and senior director analyst Clement Christensen.
• Attendees will get exclusive access to live demos and peers case studies from solution providers at the forefront of finance technology.
• To register and to find complete conference details, please visit the Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference website.

• With our second Impact Report, we detail how we can responsibly tap the planet's largest source of key battery materials to supply the energy transition while minimizing its environmental, climate and social impacts.
• Benchmark’s LCA shows the NORI-D Project model performed better in almost every impact category analyzed than all the land-based routes analyzed.
• TMC’s 2022 Impact Report was prepared using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards as guidance.
• To access TMC’s 2022 Impact Report, click here .