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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

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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…

Faculty Partners in the News

Congratulations are in order for several GCI Faculty Partners: Drs McCrory, Kwabi, Banu, and Taub Both Dr. Charles McCrory and Dr. David Kwabi were on separate cross-disciplinary Negative Emissions Science Teams that recently won awards sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with additional support from the Climate…

From pollutant to product: the companies making stuff from CO2

Volker Sick was recently interviewed by Zoë Corbyn of the Guardian about making stuff from CO2 “It’s almost a sin to throw away a valuable resource,” says Volker Sick, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan who directs the Global CO2 Initiative. “The beauty of carbon is you can make so many…