Carbon Capture and Conversion: Opportunities, Challenges, and Potential
Channel: Carbon Talks
Date: 2016-02-12

Even with the rapid adoption of new climate and clean energy policies, policy alone will be insufficient to ensure de-carbonization of the atmosphere and keep global temperature change from exceeding 2°C. Leading climate thinkers like Tim Flannery assert that, if the world is to avoid exacerbating climate change, new "climate negative" technologies will need to be developed and adopted in order to draw CO2 from the air and either re-use or store it. 

In this Carbon Talk, Dr. Richard Adamson, President of Carbon Management Canada Research Institutes, highlighted the critical need for industrial-scale technology development. 

Dr. Naoko Ellis, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UBC, introduced the audience to some of the innovative technologies currently under development, including different methods for carbon capture from the air such as amine scrubbers, sorbents, and metal-organic frameworks. She also discussed engineering new forms of hydrocarbon combustion that do not release CO2 and the need to commodify CO2.

Following the presentation, discussion during the dialogue touched on the role of technology in creating climate solutions and how carbon pricing can drive economic innovation.

Panelists: 
-- Richard Adamson, President, CMC Research Institutes
-- Naoko Ellis, Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia 

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