Delegates celebrate the opening of the Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre on May 25, 2018. Image: InnoTech Alberta Reaching the goal set out in the 2012 Paris climate agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a level that limits increases in global temperatures to less than 2 degrees Celsius is going to take an effort similar to the industrial revolution. This is how Steve MacDonald, chief executive officer of Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), set the stage for an audience gathered at ERA’s Lesson Learned Workshop in Calgary on November 30. “We’re facing another revolution; call it the carbon revolution. It will change how we live,” MacDonald told the crowd of around 200 gathered to learn the latest on carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies (CCUS). “A ten-fold increase in carbon efficiency is needed and we have to do it in one-third of the time as the industrial revolution.” Launched in 2009, ERA’s mandate is to identify and accelerate solutions that secure Alberta’s success in a low carbon economy. A part of that effort is speeding the development of CCUS technologies and pushing them towards commercialization. This includes the $35 million Grand Challenge, a multi-year, multinational effort to help identify […]
