CO2 Polymers - Novel Options for Plastic Industry - A Challenge to Sustainable Chemistry
The world's largest conference on "CO 2 as Feedstock for Chemistry and Polymers" (Haus der Technik Essen, 10-11 October 2012) covers an incredibly wide range of uses for CO 2 , developing a vision for a sustainable carbon dioxide economy. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, the end product of burning fossil fuels or biomass, are largely responsible for the greenhouse effect and thus for climate change. A reduction in CO 2 emissions are therefore at the very top of the international political agenda. Trials are running in parallel to explore underground sequestration of CO 2 from power stations, thereby removing it from the atmosphere. It would at first sight seem paradoxical to wish to use energy-poor, inert CO 2 molecules. Considerable research and development efforts in recent years have led to new and innovative CO 2 -recycling technologies and a vision of a CO 2 economy. CO 2 recycling has quickly become a hot topic for the future for every large company in