Transforming CO2 from waste to valuable resource - Hybrid event

Currently, our economy relies heavily on fossil fuels to supply carbon for manufacturing products such as fuels, fertilisers and building blocks for commodity chemicals, whereas CO2 can be sourced from industrial emissions, biogas, directly from the atmosphere, or even from the oceans.

Through carbon capture and transformation, CO2 can be used as a resource for generating valuable carbon-containing products. CO2 utilisation is a fledgling industry but globally is expected to reach up to US$1trillion by 2030.

This event discusses the challenges and opportunities of carbon dioxide transformation and how the development of this technology can help catalyse a green manufacturing and export revolution for Australia.

Our panel members are researchers with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2):

• Professor Xiwang Zhang (Director)
• Professor Darren Martin
• Associate Professor Ruth Knibbe
• Associate Professor Simon Smart 
• Associate Professor Tom Rufford.

Light refreshments will be served.

Enquiries: Please direct event queries to GETCO2 Communications Officer Anna Knudsen at getco2@uq.edu.au.

Who should attend

Alumni, researchers, government, industry, undergraduate & postgraduate students, members of the public are all welcome.

Location

Room 275, Global Change Institute (20), St Lucia campus or Via Zoom.