New research projects on carbon capture and utilization

Ghent university coordinates the CATCO2RE and CO2PERATE project, recently financed by the Flemish Government. Turning waste into a resource The discovery of efficient technologies that enable the use of CO₂ as a starting material for chemical synthesis is one of the biggest scientific challenges of our time. It serves the dual purpose of reducing CO₂ emissions and producing value added chemicals using CO₂ as a building block, thus helping mitigate the effects of climate change while creating new opportunities for the chemical industry. Two new research projects. Two research projects focusing on the discovery of new technologies to transform waste CO₂ into value-added chemicals have been funded by the Flemish Government: the CATCO2RE project (2.5 million euro) is funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). The CO2PERATE project (2.6 million euro) is funded by the Agentschap Innoveren en Ondernemen (VLAIO), and supported by Catalisti, the spearhead cluster for chemistry and plastics. This support represents a significant milestone for the development of state-of-the-art expertise in CO₂ capture and utilization in Flanders, and is expected to help address the impact of human activities on the environment .