Our mission is to get CO2 capture and use recognised and implemented as a mainstream climate solution. This requires leading and accelerating the world in building a marketplace to capture and transform CO2 into commercially sustainable products that harness 4 gigatonnes per year.
As a global umbrella organisation, we convene and accelerate research, development and deployment by working with research organisations (academic, government, and commercial) and funding sources (angels, institutional, government, and commercial) throughout the world.
We lead other organisations worldwide by engaging all stakeholders in the ecosystem to:
- Develop the educational discipline of carbon capture and utilisation
- Create the global standard tools that accelerate a system-level process of technology assessment
- Accelerate the translation of research to development and market introduction and broad-scale deployment
ECRA - European Cement Research Academy
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The European Cement Research Academy was founded in 2003 as a platform to enable the European cement industry to support and undertake research activities within the context of the production of cement and its application in concrete. ECRA's mission is to advance innovation in the field of sustainable development and to communicate the latest knowledge and research findings in cement and concrete technology.
With a membership of over 45 leading cement producers and technology providers worldwide, ECRA is regarded as a research body with a high level of competence and has been researching in the field of carbon capture since 2007,with a strong focus on oxyfuel technology.
ECRA lays great emphasis on the global perspective of its research and on sustainability. This implies that not only CO₂ emissions as such, but also the huge energy demands for operating CCS plants are taken into account. It is already clear that capturing CO₂ in cement plants is technically feasible. The question of what to do with the captured CO₂, however, remains. ECRA’s current main research focus is therefore to highlight the topic of CO₂ infrastructure, which is fundamental in order to enable captured CO₂ to be safely transported from its source to suitable storage sites or utilisation plants.
Volker Hoenig