News

Innovation for Impact – Climate Change Applications Now Open!

We are inviting emerging companies in our space to apply for Innovation for Impact – Climate Change. This company-in-residence program is offered through our Center for Entrepreneurship and offers emerging companies an opportunity to work with student teams for two semesters (January until December with a break during the summer) on a project defined by…

Announcing Two New CCU Publications!

Why Terminology Matters for Successful Rollout of Carbon Dioxide Utilization Technologies By Barbara Olfe-Kräutlein, Katy Armstrong, Michele Mutchek, Lorenzo Cremonese, & Volker Sick To realize their full sustainability potential, carbon dioxide utilization technologies (carbon capture and utilization/CCU) presently require policy support. Consequently, they require acceptance among a variety of stakeholders in industry, policy making, and…

DAC Coalition Launches

“We really think what we bring to the table is that unique front line perspective from these different stakeholders who are working on it.”Nicholas Eisenberger Article: Andrew Freedman, author of Axios Generate. Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios. Exclusive: Direct air capture coalition launches A new direct air capture coalition is launching Tuesday that aims to be a convener…

On-line CCU LCA/TEA calculator now available!

The Global CO2 Initiative has just released a new on-line calculator tool that enables users to conduct rapid, cradle to gate life cycle & techno-economic assessments! For instructions on how to use this tool, check out the “AssessCCUS calculator explained” video on the Global CO2 Initiative’s YouTube channel. This free calculator tool can be found…

New CCU specific greenwashing study released

“…(T)here are many ways that firms might inadvertently or intentionally greenwash carbon-utilizing products. There are also many different questions that stakeholders can ask to help uncover these strategies and understand if the firms have taken the proper steps to assert their environmental claims. While equipping customers, investors, employees, non-governmental organizations, and business partners with the…

GCI Director Volker Sick quoted in Wall Street Journal

graphic of guy holding up a fizzy beverage

Volker Sick was recently interviewed by Benoît Morenne of the Wall Street Journal about the future of captured CO2 “Consumers will need reassurance that some of these new products are safe, says Volker Sick, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and director of the Global CO2 Initiative, a research group that…