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International Effort Launches to Determine Best Bet CO2 Utilization Technologies

Economic and Environmental Guidelines Will Support New Industries and Climate Solutions ANN ARBOR – A tool to identify promising carbon dioxide utilization technologies will be expanded and advanced through a $1.5 million project funded by the Global CO2 Initiative at the University of Michigan (GCI-UM) and Climate-KIC, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s Climate…

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University of Michigan Global CO2 Initiative

Today, we are proud to announce the establishment of the Global CO2 Initiative’s Advisory Board, dedicated to supporting our critical mission of developing ways to remove carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into useful products. Our Initiative tapped a broad range of experts and stakeholders that are actively engaged in the global carbon…

Save the date: 7th Conference on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers

7th Conference on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock

Date: March 20–21 2019, Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany Topics: Carbon Capture, Hydrogen, Fuels for cars and aviation, Chemicals and Polymers as well as Mineralization From the Conference site: More and more stakeholders are interested in CCU’s fast-moving, industry-driven innovation area. Several companies showed their interest on getting involved into this field and a lot of pilot,…

The Era of Climate Action – Statement Regarding COP24

Following the conclusion of United Nations climate negotiations one thing is abundantly clear: we need much more investment in innovative technology as well as proactive policy solutions to meet our ever-ambitious global climate targets. In addition to countries setting and surpassing these targets, we also need critical businesses and heavy industries to take bold steps…

Brussels Workshop Kicks Off Industry Toolkit

© Eric Berghen/IASS Last week, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a critical report with one major suggestion: cut carbon pollution as much as possible, as fast as possible. On the same day as the report was published, the Global CO2 Initiative at the University of Michigan, in collaboration with our international research partners…

Statement Regarding the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C

Prior to the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, experts anticipated it to be the “most critical and controversial report on climate change.” As shown in today’s report, it is increasingly clear that transitioning to renewable energy is not enough if we are to meet our climate goals. We are faced…