Emerging Technologies and Solutions for the Sustainable Climate Change Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

Global warming is the phenomenon of temperatures rising in the atmosphere and ocean, which is mainly due to a large amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by human activities. Many countries are paying attention to the reduction of GHG emissions by developing related technologies, such as mineral carbonation, recycling of industrial by-products, extraction of valuable components from wastes, water purification utilizing wastes, and so on.

1. Focus: This Special Issue focuses on the introduction of research trends and emerging technologies, contributing to the mitigation of current climate change.
2. Scope: The current major challenge is global warming. As we know, CO₂ is the major emission and causes global warming. The most representative ways to reduce CO₂ from the atmosphere is carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). Carbon capture and utilization (CCS) has some disadvantages, such as the leakage of CO₂ from sites, while CCUS technologies, such as carbon mineralization, are more stable and reliable compared to CCS technologies.

Therefore, the scope and aim for this Special Issue are to introduce recent research on CCUS and related technologies. We are especially interested in the topics listed below:

• Carbon mineralization
• Waste paper recycling and application of carbon mineralization
• Manufacturing eco-friendly cementitious materials from waste residues
• Waste water treatment, challenges and assessments
• Convergence technologies for sustainable climate change challenges

3. Purpose of the Special Issue: The purpose of this Special Issue is to introduce advanced techniques and research that have helped to reduce CO₂ emissions and to utilize CO₂ for the manufacturing of valuable products.

Dr. Ji Whan Ahn
Guest Editor

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