Tom Raftery recently interviewed Professor Volker Sick for his podcast “Climate 21.” The Climate 21 podcast is a weekly podcast that will showcase best practices and thought leadership in greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Volker Sick on using concrete as a carbon sink “… it is a material that is designed to really hold enormous amounts…
This October the Board of Regents announced their selection of the 2019 Distinguished University Professorships where five faculty members from across the university were selected. Global CO2 Initiative (GCI) faculty affiliate, Nicholas Kotov was selected as one of the five. Kotov is the Irving Langmuir Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Sciences and Engineering. He also…
As the issue of climate change surges on, along with many other challenges we face, the U-M Global CO2 Initiative has launched the Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) Activity Hub. The CCU Activity Hub is a gateway for investors, policymakers, researchers, and environmentalists to find out where research, centers, start-ups, policy reforms, and more are…
Stronger, stiffer, greener: Carbon-negative natural-fiber composites University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering 2019/2020 Annual Report BY: Kim Roth, Scientific Writer Lightening the weight of the machines that move people by land, sea and air is beneficial for many reasons, including improved fuel efficiency and the ability to carry higher payloads or added safety systems….
Using CO2 as an industrial feedstock could change the world. Here’s how World Economic Forum BY: Dr. Volker Sick, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director Global CO2 Initiative, University of Michigan Using recovered CO2 as a feedstock can boost growth and lower emissions The market could be worth trillions of dollars Governments and business leaders can…
Tom Delay Chief Executive, Carbon Trust Tom Delay was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the Carbon Trust in 2001. Delay has extensive experience in the energy sector, with 16 years in commercial and operations roles at Shell, before moving into management consultancy with McKinsey and the Global Energy Practice of A.T. Kearney prior…
