Session: Materials for Decarbonization

In this modern society, excessive consumption or combustion of fossil fuels has influenced global climate change, causing a major shift that demands urgent attention. The industrial processes for manufacturing and transportation have already released a significant amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the environment, contributing to an increase of CO2 that may potentially increase our planet temperature by approximately ~1.5 to 2 oC. To address this grand challenge, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has championed a roadmap for achieving net-zero emissions with a path towards carbon negative technologies in a longer term. This symposium aims to bring academic experts, stake holders, industry delegates and policy makers from across the fields to foster discussions on decarbonization technologies with a particular emphasis on net-zero or carbon negative technologies for the production of value-added products from carbon dioxide (CO2).