Handling Climate Change – Establishing Waste CO₂ Management A View from Biotechnology

Abstract

The biggest material flows induced by industry are realized in energy production. Coal, oil and gas as raw material streams are moved from their deposits to their further converting. From there product streams are branched out. However, the biggest material flow of this industry is waste CO 2 mobilized by chemical conversion from fossil deposits and released into the atmosphere. A waste management is urgently needed to reduce the amount of this flow, to neutralize its effects on environment and to establish applications yielding a return. Natural backflow of CO 2 from the atmosphere to the biosphere waits for completion by industrial methods in order to shift it to a dimension equalizing the finally unavoidable amount of waste CO 2 flow into the atmosphere.