The world is expected to add
more than two trillion square feet of new building space by 2060.
That's the equivalent of adding another New York City
every month for the next 40 years.
Many of these buildings will be made using cement,
a massive emitter of greenhouse gases.
But a company in Canada discovered an innovative way
to reduce cement's carbon footprint.
The effects of climate change are going to happen.
We're seeing it every day.
But this is a solvable problem.
Our industry can decarbonize.
Cement is the glue.
It's the active ingredient in making concrete
and is the product that we build modern society with.
People often ask,
"What is the difference between cement and concrete?"
Cement is really the chemistry behind concrete.
The simple analogy would be if you're baking a cake,
the flour would be the cement
and the cake would be the concrete, the finished product.
To make concrete,
you dig up limestone from the ground
and then you run that through a kiln.
Each pound of limestone that you put into this kiln,
one half goes up into the atmosphere as CO2.
Carbon Cure is a technology company
helping concrete producers transition
into the new low carbon economy.
We developed a technology that bolts onto an existing concrete plant.
We're starting with a greenhouse gas,
a harmful waste product and we're turning that into value.
We add a small amount of CO2
to react with the chemistry from cement
that allows you to create a higher strength concrete.
Carbon utilization is not just some abstract idea.
It's not just happening in the lab.
It's happening in the real world.
The concrete industry has worked for years on sustainability
and so now we're looking for new technology
and Carbon Cure sequesters that CO2 into the concrete,
locks it in forever.
Then you can actually lower the amount of cement in that concrete,
it's really taken hold,
and it's building real things that we can live in
and drive on every single day with overpasses and roads,
airports, aquariums, or it could even be tech campuses.
Carbon Cure is on a mission
to reduce 500 mega tons of CO2 emissions per year.
That is the equivalent of taking 100 million cars off the road,
or the equivalent of the CO2 reductions
from 500 million acres of trees annually.
We're finding in the marketplace,
both with our customers and internally,
people are proud to work for someplace
that is taking care of the environment.
I'm doing it for my family.
I'm doing it for my daughter.
There's a real human toll to climate change,
but absolutely the solutions are there.