{"id":867189,"date":"2022-08-11T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&p=867189"},"modified":"2022-12-22T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T21:22:40","slug":"project-carbonix","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/project-carbonix\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Carbonix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Project Carbonix<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Accelerating the carbon negative economy<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Climate change is one of the most urgent problems of our time, and our best chance of addressing this challenge is decarbonizing the world\u2019s economy, i.e., going \u201ccarbon negative\u201d. A carbon negative world can only be achieved with carbon removal technology, currently not sufficiently efficient or economical to reach a global scale due to its high resource requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft has one of the most ambitious Corporate Responsibility programs globally. Among its commitments is a pledge to remove all carbon emissions since the company\u2019s founding by 2050<\/a>. While Microsoft\u2019s commitment will contribute to decarbonization, meaningful \u201ccarbon negative\u201d cannot be accomplished by any single organization. It will require global action, preceded by significant research and development in engineering, technoeconomic and environmental assessments, and production methods, areas where Microsoft Research\u2019s expertise in computational tools can accelerate solution development.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Carbonix will address this by pushing the understanding of materials and systems engineering for carbon negative goals, starting from a desired set of properties. The Carbonix mission is to direct computational tool development efforts and expertise of these teams, along with complementary domain expertise of a global ecosystem of external research leaders, to accelerate materials and systems engineering for the economical decarbonization of the environment. We will achieve this by focusing on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materials and systems engineering<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n