Our Scientific Director Célia Julia Sapart published the scientific article ‘No climate neutrality without the creation of a circular carbon economy’ in ISTE OpenScience, a part of the ISTE Group.
The article explores the need to phase out all uses of virgin fossil carbon to mitigate climate change; the electrification of transport and industrial processes where possible; and the substitution of the carbon and virgin fossil used in chemical and materials sectors, aviation, and maritime transport.
A solution to defossilising the economy is to use CO₂ as a substitute for fossil carbon. The concept of Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) falls under the umbrella of this solution. It is a broad term describing the processes that capture CO₂ from flue and process gases or directly from the air and convert it into products such as fuels, chemicals, and materials.
Despite the lack of precise global estimates of CCU technologies’ potential mitigation role due to uncertainties in renewable electricity cost scenarios and the low granularity of models that simulate different CCU options, the latest report of the Working Group 3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) described CCU technologies having the potential to play a significant role in mitigating climate change.
Read the full article here.
