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Cement literally serves as a building block for our ever-growing world, but it’s taking a steep toll on the environment.
Cement and its end product concrete accounts for 7 per cent of global carbon emissions, with emissions from the industry expected to rise by 4 per cent globally by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency. Indeed, Bill Gates, the tech tycoon that’s now focused on resolving environmental issues, calls concrete among the “hardest” products to decarbonize.
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Earlier this week, ExxonMobil, a company among the largest producers of greenhouse gas emissions and a longtime leader in the corporate fight against climate change regulations, called for a massive $100 billion project (backed in part by the government) to sequester hundreds of millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide in geologic formations off the Gulf […]
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A Canadian company that has developed a process to reduce emissions from concrete production is one of the two grand-prize winners of the $20-million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE.
Halifax-based company CarbonCure whose breakthrough technology can be used to retrofit existing concrete plants so they consume carbon dioxide as part of their normal production process will take home one of two $7.5-million grand prize purses. (In Round 2, a $2.5-million prize purse was shared equally between the five finalists in two separate competition tracks).
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