Closing the Carbon Cycle: Fuels from Air

At the 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris in 2015, the world agreed to attempt to hold warming to less than 1.5 degrees but at least hold the line at 2 degrees. Such targets imply strict limits on CO2 emissions and a deep decarbonization of all sectors of the economy and a move towards a future with a completely balanced carbon budget. With about half of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions resulting from dispersed or mobile sources combusting liquid fuels or natural gas, there is a strong motivation to preserve access to these convenient fuels by creating a circular carbon economy that closes the carbon cycle by producing liquid fuels or gas from renewable energy, water and carbon dioxide from air.

Since 2010, researchers at the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University, the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia University, and Denmark Technical University have held an open annual meeting.

Please join the 7th annual “Closing the Carbon Cycle Conference” from Sept. 28 through Sept. 30. Hear from leading experts in academia, start-ups, and established industries who will present on subject related material and take part in immersive discussions that cover the greatest challenges and opportunities of the field. 

Topics include:

• Legal, social and political framework for air capture technologies
• Methods to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
• Electro-chemical and thermo-chemical methods to convert CO2 into fuels
• Alternative fuel conversion pathways for CO2 from the atmosphere
• Integration of carbon neutral fuels into the broader sustainability platform.

For more information, visit www.closingthecarboncycle.net or email christophe@carbonalist.com.