Kristi Kattapong 
Nigel Topping, High Level Champion for Climate Action at COP26, recently published an engaging and thoughtful article setting the stage for COP26 Only seven weeks left to go before national governments, cities, regions, businesses, investors and citizens meet at COP26 for our last big chance to unite as a global, multilateral community forging a healthier,…
This issue of the GCI newsletter features Dick Greeley, Associate Director of Licensing, U-M Office of Technology Transfer and creator of the GCI’s CCU Activity Hub. Dick has over 30 years of experience in high technology, formerly serving as a Director of Licensing for Microsoft, a Director of Technology Business Development and a Director of Strategic Planning and Investing at Hewlett-Packard. Among other start-ups, he…
Brad Crabtree serves as Vice President for Carbon Management at the Great Plains Institute (GPI) and has nearly three decades experience in energy and climate policy. Crabtree oversees GPI’s carbon management portfolio; he helped launch the State Carbon Capture Work Group, a 16-state initiative first convened in 2015 to foster commercial deployment of carbon capture…
“Climate change is the biggest challenge we face, and carbon capture has a chance to contribute toward solving it.” This issue of the GCI newsletter features Stafford Sheehan, Chief Technology Officer at Air Company. Air Company is a technology, engineering and design company that transforms carbon dioxide into products like vodka and sanitizer. Stafford received his PhD from Yale University…
Volker Sick and colleagues recently published a paper on the relative impacts of carbon utilization for different area of production. “Decisions to globally scale CCU operations will require guidance on identifying products that maximize the climate benefits of using captured CO2,” said lead author Dwarak Ravikumar, a former postdoctoral researcher at U-M’s Center for Sustainable…
Volker Sick was recently interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about climate change. “We don’t have a silver bullet, one thing that fixes everything,” Sick said. “So we need individual action, we need policy action, new technology — we need to make changes in lots of things, but we need to do this with a…
