From Emissions to Products – Using CO₂ as a Natural Resource
By removing excess CO₂ from the Earth's atmosphere, we transform a global challenge into a scalable industrial opportunity, paving the way towards a post-fossil future.
CO₂ Capture
Removing CO₂ from the atmosphere with maximum efficiency and sustainability
CO₂ Conversion
Cutting-edge CO₂ processing technologies – engineered to unlock value.
CO₂ Use & Sink
Pioneering CO₂-Binding pathways– built for impact at scale.
Towards a CO₂-binding system
Holistic perspectives to assess sustainable innovations and enable new ways of doing business
Impact
Mining the Atmosphere, a new Empa research initiative, aims at capturing excess CO₂ from the atmosphere and storing it in building materials such as concrete. Empa researchers have now calculated the potential of this approach for the first time: Five to ten billion tons of carbon could be used annually as concrete aggregates – well enough to permanently store the current excess CO₂ within 100 years after the energy transition and thus to bring atmospheric CO₂ back to climate-friendly levels.
Are buildings that affect our climate in a positive way soon going to be a reality? In order to achieve the ambitious net zero target by 2050, we as a society need to rethink the standards and procedures we are living by. One of the most impactful sectors is the construction industry. Through the use of advanced technologies, buildings could soon serve as carbon sinks and thus help to ensure that the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere no longer increases, or at best even decreases. ....
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