{"id":2919,"date":"2017-05-13T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2017-05-14T21:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:20:58","slug":"co2-utilization-global-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=2919","title":{"rendered":"CO2 Utilization Global Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/CGC-speakers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1112\" title=\"Cover Final\" src=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/wp-content\/media\/CGC-speakers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Geoffrey Ozin and his research group are currently working on ways to turn atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> into fuels, such as gasoline, methanol, carbon monoxide and chemical products, such as urea based fertilizer. Such an approach would simultaneously reduce greenhouse gases and ditch reliance on fossil sources. Ozin\u2019s view of CO<sub>2<\/sub> as a friend and not an enemy is shared by many academics, and marks a major shift in how climate change should be tackled.<br \/>\nOn May 9th and 10th, U of T&#8217;s Solar Fuels Cluster hosted the international \u201cCO<sub>2<\/sub> Solutions to Climate Change\u201d Symposium, bringing together the world\u2019s top scientists and engineers, all of whom are developing creative solutions to transform CO<sub>2<\/sub> into useful chemicals, materials, and fuels. A variety of cutting-edge chemical, biological, computational, and materials-based strategies were presented. Science and engineering researchers, engineers and policy makers from the United States, China, Japan, the UK, and Germany laid out the full spectrum of scientific, economic and political challenges that must addressed to successfully shift towards the CO<sub>2<\/sub> energy economy.<br \/>\nBut it\u2019s not only environmentalists who should be interested. A recent report by the Global CO<sub>2<\/sub> Initiative predicts that products manufactured from CO<sub>2<\/sub> could create a global market of over US $800 billion by 2030 with a 15% reduction in the level of CO<sub>2<\/sub> in the atmosphere. Now, government is interested too. Ontario\u2019s Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Glen Murray, who opened the symposium and a passionate believer in taking strong and fast action to curb climate change, doesn\u2019t want Canada to lose out. He has a vision to implement the process of carbon capture and utilization across the country and wants to see Canada as a global leader in pushing towards a sustainable energy economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Geoffrey Ozin and his research group are currently working on ways to turn atmospheric CO2 into fuels, such as gasoline, methanol, carbon monoxide and chemical products, such as urea based fertilizer. Such an approach would simultaneously reduce greenhouse gases &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/?p=2919\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nanowizard.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}