Dr. Volker Sick, has been named Faculty Director at the Center for Entrepreneurship at University of Michigan in addition to his current role as the Director of the Global CO2 Initiative! This story, courtesy of Hailey McCormick, CFE Marketing and Communications Specialist, first appeared as a Staff Spotlight on the CFE Blog. The fun begins with putting together the teams and…
“Ultimately, physical carbon capture units on campus can demonstrate to other students that carbon capture is not just some theoretical solution to climate change–it has real potential to make a difference.” This first newsletter issue of 2023 features the incoming president of the Global CO2 Initiative Student Association (GCISA), Kendra Hagey. Kendra is a junior in Chemical Engineering with a…
“Working with the GCI opened tons of doors for me.”
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…
“…(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…
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…
