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Did you miss John Field’s Beyond Carbon Neutral Seminar Series talk? Catch it here.

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Listen to the presentation (MP3: 31MB, 76 minutes) View the slides (PDF: 5MB) Abstract After years of slow progress on achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions, most climate stabilization scenarios now assume significant future ability to capture and store ambient atmospheric CO2, usually via photosynthesis and carbon sequestration in vegetation, soils, or geological storage. However, there…

CO2 Utilization: A Look Ahead

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Finding ways to convert carbon dioxide from an energy and industrial sector waste product to a useful commodity could spur the development of new technologies, products, and industries while limiting emissions to the atmosphere of climate-altering pollutants. In 2016, U.S. policymakers demonstrated leadership in this area by introducing several bills that would provide commercial deployment incentives for carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) technology.[i]

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Bio-based News: Future of CO2-based Product Technology Unveiled at COP22

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Report Outlines Trillion Dollar Market Opportunity

Today the Global CO2 Initiative announced major findings and recommendations from its Roadmap for the Global Implementation of Carbon Dioxide Utilization Technologies at the ICEF2016 Roadmap Launch Event at COP22 in Morocco. The Roadmap offers a market assessment and recommendations for the carbon-based products industry (CBPI). The report shows that through broad scale commercialization of products derived from CO2 there are sizable market opportunities while mitigating CO2 emissions.

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Tim Stiles: The market for carbon use in 15 years could be over $1 trillion

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Tim Stiles, Global Chair of KPMG’s IDAS Practice, mentioned The Global CO2Initiative during a panel discussion titled “Critical Support for Innovative Finance” at the FT Investing for Good conference in early December. In his comments, he states that “…the market for carbon use in 15 years could be over $1 trillion, which would reduce CO2 output by 12-15%. Now that’s very intriguing, because suddenly you’re addressing this problem and providing a commercial return.”

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Financing carbon capture: corporate partners lead the way

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Addressing climate change will require tremendous investment in low- and zero-carbon energy technologies. Estimates are as high as $1 trillion per year (PDF) through 2030.

Some of that investment must be in carbon capture technology, which can reduce emissions from both the power and industrial sectors. Carbon capture could provide 13 percent of global emissions reductions through 2050.

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