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2023 CCU LCA TEA Workshop Slides and Photos Now Available!

 We are pleased to announce that some of the slides for the 2023 TEA/LCA Workshop on Harmonizing CCUS Assessments are now available! Slide links can be found next to the corresponding session title below. About the event: This fifth workshop in the series is planned and conducted by the International CCUS Assessment Harmonization Group…

OpenAir Collective Co-founder Matt Parker featured in Newsletter

“…(B)eing an OpenAir co-founder is really just being a glorified volunteer. We’re all just volunteers. We’re all just collectors. And we’re all just giving our time, effort and energy to try to have as much impact as we can.”  An Associate Professor of the Arts at the NYU Game Center, Dr. Matt Parker also serves as the Area…

Grantham Foundation donates $250,000 to GCI

The Global CO2 Initiative is deeply honored to announce that the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment has generously agreed to continue their support of our work with a gift of $250,000 in 2023.  It is because of magnanimous donors such as the Grantham Foundation that we are able to provide free CCUS resources, such as…

Volker Sick wins 2023 ASME Edward F. Church Medal

“I am honored and humbled to receive the 2023 ASME Edwin F. Church Medal. I am thankful for the academic environment at the University of Michigan that encourages academic innovation and that has allowed the introduction of the International Minor for Engineers, the Techlab collection of courses in the Center for Entrepreneurship, and more.” Dr….

Engineers need a sustainability education

How the University of Michigan is making sure its engineering students are ready to tackle sustainability issues in their careers. By Susan Fancy & Volker Sick Published in Greenbiz April 4, 2023 When working as an engineer in the late 1980s, industrial engineers’ main considerations were  the durability, quality, safety and regulatory requirements that the product must meet,…

Newsletter Features Kristi Kattapong, GCI Communications Specialist

“I used to hear a lot of despair and hopelessness around climate change, but lately I’ve been hearing more about concrete actions we could take, if we could only figure out how to navigate certain roadblocks.”  This newsletter features Kristi Kattapong, Communications Specialist at the Global CO2 Initiative. Kristi Kattapong describes her position at the Global CO2 Initiative…