“Although I lobbied the C-suite and others on sustainability as a source of enterprise value, it was never my day job. I was simply the corporate curmudgeon who was incautiously relentless in advocating for sustainability.” This issue of the GCI newsletter features Fred Mason, GCI Board Member and experienced international executive supporting sustainability with expertise, insight…
“The extraordinary challenge in this field is to cross the Valley of Death… necessary for commercial implementation.” This issue of the GCI newsletter features Moti Herskowitz, Director of the Blechner Center for industrial Catalysis and Process Development at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Over the years your career focus has changed. What drove the change in focus? Catalysis…
GCI is excited to announce the launch of our Student Team CCU Products Summer Internship Project! Students from several schools are working with GCI this summer to investigate what could be done with a million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions from the St Mary’s cement kiln in Charlevoix, Michigan. Students will have the benefit…
Science can now pull carbon out of the air. For that to make a difference, though, businesses need to find profitable places to put it. Global CO2 Initiative Director, Volker Sick, quoted in the New York Times.
Global CO2 Initiative is excited to share the successful launch of the first-ever DACC-A-THON student competition: A hackathon for direct air carbon capture. GCI has partnered with the OpenAir Collective to create a yearly student competition in which teams optimize a direct air carbon capture (DACC) device. Students will begin with a base DACC device…
Article by Volker Sick (Global CO2 Initiative) and Tim Skone (National Energy Technology Laboratory) Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), a set of tools that can help address excess CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and which can help mitigate climate change effects, is rapidly receiving increasing attention worldwide as a valuable commercial opportunity. Promoting research,…
