AIRCURE succeeds in halving CO2 emissions from plants
The Innovative SME publishes the experiment on video and claims that its technology would solve 25% of the CO2 target set by the IPCC group for 2030.
Celavista Laboratories, remains committed to the planet through the AIRCURE project. The company focuses on human health by protecting the atmosphere, whose pollution is associated with 6.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the WHO.
AIRCURE, based on developing a technology to restore the Earth's CO2 balance through the chemistry of Nature, maintains its goal of introducing a new era of materials to provide a different, realistic and massive solution to this global problem.
The project is at a very advanced stage of technological development. The latest breakthrough consists of obtaining the minimum viable product for one of the highest impact targets, forests, the largest carbon sink on the planet.
All forests together contain approximately four times more carbon than could be additionally stored in their AGB (aboveground biomass). This carbon is already at risk of being partially released into the atmosphere through forest degradation and the increase in natural disturbances.
If no solutions are proposed and this trend continues, recent studies report that forests could cease to be CO2 sinks and become CO2 emitters from 2050.
To recover the regulating function of forests, it would be necessary, on the one hand, to control emissions from trees during their respiration processes, and, on the other hand, to heal the soil.
With AIRCURE, they are pursuing both objectives and have already succeeded in halving the CO2 emissions of a plant. The technology can therefore reduce CO2 emissions in forests around the world, from the current 8 Gt to 4 Gt per year. This represents 25% of the annual reduction required by 2030, according to the IPCC, to contain global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, as set out in the Paris Agreement.