Emissions Reduction Alberta, a registered tradename of the Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation, is embarking on shedding light on some environmentally-fantastic new technology and helping them come to market.
What The ERA Is Saying About CarbonCure’s New Technology
In their blog-article, “CarbonCure Creates A Cleaner Concrete With New Technology” the ERA says, “Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in the world and its key ingredient, cement, has a significant carbon footprint. It is the source of about eight percent of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. CarbonCure, a Canadian company, has developed a new technology that can be bolted onto existing concrete plants, locking greenhouse gas emissions into the concrete. They hope to reduce 500 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions globally per year, the equivalent of taking 100 million cars off the roads.”
How This All Started
In 2013, the ERA (Emissions Reduction Alberta) went looking for the world’s most innovative technologies that turn carbon dioxide emissions from a waste stream into valuable products in Alberta. The “Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses” was launched and is comprised of three main components: $35 million in funding, a three-round, competitive process, and the innovators’ reduction target must be one-net-megatonne of GHG reductions annually. This is all part of the ERA’s bigger investment in a diverse portfolio of technologies that will reduce GHG emissions; kudos to them as they are helping innovators address barriers to accelerate toward commercialization.
Currently, two successful projects, CarbonCure and Mangrove Water Technologies, emerged. Each will receive $5 million to support commercialization in Alberta. Visit their website to learn more.
“Carbon utilization is not just an abstract idea. It’s not just happening in the lab, it’s happening in the real world. We are already building real things that we can live in and drive on every single day—overpasses, roads, buildings, airports, aquariums.” ~ Rob Niven, Founder and CEO, CarbonCure Technologies.
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