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Oct 2, 2025 | A vision for a carbon-binding society
At the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, visitors of the Swiss Pavilion are invited to step into a future where carbon dioxide (CO₂) is no longer a harmful waste gas – but a valuable resource. Through animated videos and...
Jun 30, 2025 | Award-winning concrete to save the climate
Empa is one of the winners of the Building Award 2025. A team from Empa's Concrete and Asphalt lab was recognized for its CO₂-storing concrete – a promising approach to significantly curbing emissions in the construction...
Jan 20, 2025 | What is the potential of the “atmospheric mine”?
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...
Jul 18, 2024 | Buildings as carbon sinks
With its new research initiative Mining the Atmosphere, Empa is proposing nothing less than a paradigm shift: from a CO2-emitting to a CO2-binding society. The greenhouse gas is to be used as a valuable material – for...
Jan 11, 2024 | New NEST unit in the making
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...