“…(W)e should not only drastically decrease our emissions, but we should also find solutions to move away from the use of fossil carbon. We should ‘defossilize’ our economy, and CCU is a key solution in that sense!”
This issue features Dr. Célia Julia Sapart, Climate Scientist, Director Communications and Climate Science at CO2 Value Europe.
Dr. Sapart is a Swiss climate scientist, and a specialist in greenhouse gas emissions and historical climate reconstructions. After 13 years of academic climate research, including several long expeditions to polar regions and more than 25 scientific publications, she is now engaged at the front line of the climate action as the Director Communications and Climate Science at CO2 Value Europe. Her role is to investigate the climate mitigation potential of CO2 Capture and Utilization (CCU) technologies and to develop communication strategies to raise awareness and acceptance of CCU. She has also written an interactive children’s book to raise awareness on solutions to mitigate climate change: “Sol au Pôle Nord”.
How is it that you are fluent in four languages?
I have always liked languages and, even though my home country, Switzerland, is quite small, we speak four languages there. I speak two of them, French and German, and I have learned English during my studies with many scientists. And, it is love that made me learn Dutch, which is now very useful as I live in Belgium.