Partner Profile: Dr. Jennifer Wilcox

"The path will be a delicate balance of trade offs, but understanding the building blocks to minimize environmental impacts will be critical to ensuring we are not simply transferring this burden to future generations."

In celebration of COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference happening in Glasgow next week, this week's feature is Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, one of the most important figures in carbon dioxide removal.

Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) for Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management at the Department of Energy. Dr. Wilcox is on leave as the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. As a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, she previously led WRI’s Carbon Removal Program. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a MA in Chemistry from the University of Arizona and BA in Mathematics from Wellesley College.

How did you become interested in the field of carbon capture management?



My background is in chemical engineering and my PhD focused on minimizing the environmental impacts associated with our dependence on coal for electricity generation. Throughout my career I became increasingly focused on efforts associated with minimizing environmental impacts from all fossil fuels and not just carbon dioxide emissions, but other negative impacts as well.

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VERGE 21

October 25-28

​Join more than 10,000 leaders online — from the private and public sectors, utilities, solution providers, investors and startups — advancing systemic solutions to address the climate crisis through five key markets: clean energy, sustainable mobility, carbon removal, regenerative food systems and — new this year — resilient infrastructure.

GCI's director, Dr. Volker Sick, will be moderating the October 18 session "Hubs for Capturing, Storing and Using Carbon." For more information or to register, click here.

How can market development impact the future of carbon capture?

October 28

Katie Sullivan will provide an overview of the carbon market and how market development can impact the future of carbon capture, utilization, and storage. The keynote presentation will be followed by a panel discussion of how carbon financing will work and how carbon can be monetized. For more information or to register, click here.

Ross Energy Week Panel 2: Decarbonization Beyond The Grid

November 2

Scaling solutions for difficult-to-abate, carbon intensive sectors, with

Parth Vaishnav: (Moderator) Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan; Christina Reynolds: Cofounder & Chief Science Officer, Remora; Jessie Lund: Senior Associate for Carbon-Free Mobility program, RMI; Tadeu Carneiro: Chairman & CEO, Boston Metal; Volker Sick: Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Mechanical Engineering, DTE Energy Professor of Advanced Energy Research, Director, Global CO₂ Initiative, University Michigan; and Julia Reichelstein: Investor, Piva Capital. For more information or to register, click here.

CCU, The Scientific Basis Webinar

November 4

What are Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) technologies and what are their impacts on our climate, on our energy systems and industrial business models? Where do we stand in terms of these technologies and what are the perspectives and challenges to deploying them at a large scale?  

CO₂ Value Europe, CO₂ Value Australia and the Global CO₂ Initiative are co-organizing a webinar to give the word to scientific experts on all aspects of CCU from our three continents. For more information or to register, click here.

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