"Carbon capture and use can reduce, recycle or even remove emissions from the atmosphere, but its role in climate action depends on the carbon’s origin and destination."

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Garcia-Garcia, Guillermo; Fernandez, Marta Cruz; Armstrong, Katy; Woolass, Steven; Styring, Peter (2020): Analytical Review of Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of Carbon Capture and Utilization Technologies. In Chemsuschem. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202002126.

"To guarantee that CCU processes have environmental advantages over conventional production processes, thorough and systematic environmental impact analyses must be performed. Life‐Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a robust methodology that can be used to fulfil this aim. In this context, this article aims to review the life‐cycle environmental impacts of several CCU processes, focusing on the production of methanol, methane, dimethyl ether, dimethyl carbonate, propane and propene."

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"The experiment could open a new area of research in which the greenhouse gas could be extracted from the air, stored and used to power planes."

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Ostovari, Hesam; Sternberg, André; Bardow, André (2020): Rock ‘n’ use of CO 2 : carbon footprint of carbon capture and utilization by mineralization. In Sustainable Energy Fuels 4 (9), pp. 4482–4496. DOI: 10.1039/D0SE00190B.

"To provide a sound assessment of the climate impacts of CCU by mineralization, we determine the carbon footprint of CCU by mineralization based on life cycle assessment. For this purpose, we analyze 7 pathways proposed in literature: 5 direct and 2 indirect mineralization pathways, considering serpentine, olivine, and steel slag as feedstock."

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