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TEA & LCA Guidelines for CO2 Utilization (Version 2.0) webinar now available on demand

In case you missed the March 17 Launch of the Techno-Economic Assessment & Life-Cycle Assessment Guidelines for CO2 Utilization (Version 2.0) event, it is now available on the Global CO2 Initiative YouTube channel. Relevant documents can be found with the links below. Download the guidelines. Download the Making Sense document for the above guidelines. 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…

U-M TCAUP Receives Catalyst Grant

The Global CO2 Initiative is proud to announce that their partners at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning have been awarded a catalyst grant. These catalyst grants, from the Graham Sustainability Institute, fund projects designed to advance potential infrastructure solutions across energy, transportation, and the built environment. The projects will…

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…

Volker Sick and Colleagues Publish on Infrastructure and Climate Change Solutions

Lucca Henrion, Duo Zhang, Victor Li and GCI Director, Volker Sick, publish a paper on how Built Infrastructure Renewal and Climate Change Mitigation Can Both Find Solutions in CO2. From technology to policy, the US is thinking about construction differently. The federal government is motivated to address the aging infrastructure across the country, and policy…