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As scientists around the world race against the clock to develop new strategies and technologies to combat climate change, a team of scientists at the University of Houston is looking into one possible way to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the environment: negative emissions technologies (NETs).
We know that humans are largely responsible for fueling global warming with our carbon emissions. So what if we could seize all that carbon and squirrel it away in a safe place? Well, we can. It's just hard and really expensive.
The construction industry releases enormous amounts of carbon dioxide. Now one Canadian company has developed a technology to make a cement substitute from industrial waste and CO2, thereby trapping this greenhouse gas in the concrete.