“The path will be a delicate balance of trade offs, but understanding the building blocks to minimize environmental impacts will be critical to ensuring we are not simply transferring this burden to future generations.” In celebration of COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference happening in Glasgow next week, this week’s feature is Dr. Jennifer…
Between October 31 and November 12, 2021, delegates from nearly 200 countries will gather in Glasgow, Scotland for the COP26 climate summit, described by some as a make-or-break chance to curb greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst ravages of climate change. In addition to Dr. Volker Sick, GCI’s director, the University of Michigan…
In honor of Hispanic Heritage month, the Global CO2 Initiative (GCI) is proud to profile our intern José María Guerrero Mata. José María is an undergraduate in Civil Engineering at Universidad de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. Although Mexican, he was born in Great Britain. In the future he hopes to work in the construction industry,…
“We have to act boldly to protect our climate… I realized that I couldn’t just sit back in my relatively comfortable academic chair — I had to get involved.” This issue of the newsletter features GCI Advisory Board Member, Dr. Eric Orts, a Guardsmark Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the…
Recently GCI welcomed a new research assistant, third year chemical engineering student Michael Ficaj, from Holton Lake, Michigan. “I’m working on the Carbon Removal Index TM, which is a tool and a database of tracks waste carbon that’s been removed from the atmosphere since the early 1970’s. I’m working on optimizing the data–getting it into…
