The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) 25th Annual Conference of the Parties was held in Santiago, Chile in December 2019. Here, national representatives from member countries convened to discuss what their country is doing to mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change. In 2015, each country laid out a plan to limit their CO2 emissions and strive towards more sustainable processes as part of the Paris Climate Agreement. However, many countries still fall short of the commitments they made in Paris. To facilitate progress towards limiting CO2 emissions, new “clean” technologies should be implemented to decrease the carbon footprint of energy processes. One of these technologies that has recently been tested on a pilot scale in several countries is CO2 utilization. Whether the CO2 is directly captured from the atmosphere or from the source, it has the potential to be a useful and economically viable building block for transport fuels, food additives, and commodity chemicals. With this technology, limiting CO2 emissions can become profitable and more practical as companies with a large carbon footprint will be able to mitigate their losses. In this presentation, progress towards implementing negative emissions technologies on a global scale will be discussed.

Negative emissions technologies: Practical approach to limiting the effects of climate change on a global scale

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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