Arctic Ice Project
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We’re in danger of losing our planetary heat shield.
OUR APPROACH
There are three ways to reduce
global temperature rise:
REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Our global economies must decarbonize towards a more sustainable future. We need to stop climate pollution now. There is no substitute solution under any scenario. No single technology can “fix” anthropogenic climate change.
Remove Carbon From the Atmosphere
Reducing future emissions must occur, but this alone will no longer suffice. Emissions are cumulative and the carbon pollution in our atmosphere will continue to drive global warming. In parallel with decarbonization of our economies, we need to clean up legacy pollution with carbon dioxide removal (CDR), also known as negative emissions.
Our focus: Enhance Earth’s Natural Heat shields
To reduce peak climate risks we must rescue our planetary heat shield. Restoring Arctic sea ice is critical as it reflects much of the sun’s energy back into space and stabilizes global weather patterns. The disappearance of Arctic ice increases the pace of climate change.
OUR APPROACH
There are three ways to reduce
global temperature rise:
REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
REMOVE CARBON FROM THE ATMOSPHERE
Our focus: Enhance Earth’s Natural Heat shields
Decarbonization is and must be the core solution to fight climate change.
Technologies like ours serve as a stop-gap, providing up 15 more years for the world’s economies to make the transition to clean energy, limiting climate risks and curbing temperature rise.
A Promising Solution
A promising solution is a novel materials approach that proposes to deploy a thin layer of very small hollow glass microspheres across targeted regions of the Arctic to improve the reflectivity of sea ice, mimicking natural processes to reflect solar energy out of our atmosphere. While we are just entering a partnership with SINTEF Ocean to begin field testing, this technology alone represents an opportunity to reduce peak climate risks. Our research represents a moonshot opportunity to preserve our icy Arctic heat shield, with the potential to preserve Arctic ice for up to 15 more years. It is imperative that we further our understanding of climate interventions such as this type of localized surface albedo modification to make the needed progress to stop climate change.
Arctic Ice Project material made of very small hollow glass microspheres.
This technology alone represents an opportunity to buy up to 15 more years to decarbonize.
The loss of reflective ice in the Arctic contributes to between 30-50% of Earth’s global heating.
BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE
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