Each week, the construction industry builds on a scale that rivals the size of Paris. With an estimated 70 million people likely to travel in and out of cities every year over the next three decades, we’re faced with the dual challenge of managing infrastructural demands while mitigating our environmental footprint. Despite being hubs of economic ventures, urban spaces are often the epicentres of carbon emissions, which is largely the result of both the transport and construction sectors. The latter is responsible for a substantial fraction of global greenhouse gases, placing the way that cement and concrete are produced at the centre of this urban climate dilemma.
This is why Blue Planet is reimagining the role of buildings as potential carbon sinks. Using ground-breaking mineralisation methods, its ambition is to convert dilute CO2 - regardless of its origins - into calcium carbonate. This process, inspired by how lobsters form their tough outer shells, permanently embeds carbon into an innovative material that replaces the original emissions-heavy concrete.
Blue Planet's method is distinct in its ability to convert carbon dioxide from varied sources, including cement plants and oil refineries, sometimes for gas sources that contain as little as 5 percent CO2. And by strategically placing its operations in deep-water ports, Blue Planet removes the need to transport its material across land, cutting its emissions even further.
RE:TV was founded by His Majesty King Charles III to highlight the innovations and ideas that are emerging in response to the climate and biodiversity crisis.
Inspired by The King’s long-standing commitment to nature, we provide a platform for the growing community of change-makers around the world, raising awareness of the wide variety of technological and nature-based climate solutions that point the way to a better future for us all.
As our founder put it when RE:TV launched in 2020; "there is real hope, but we've got to come together as a world on this."
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5 окт 2024
