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This course will provide an overview of the dominant technologies aimed at “negative carbon emissions”. These initiatives, collectively known as Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS), involve capturing CO2 from industrial sources or the atmosphere, utilizing it to create products, or storing it permanently underground. Our societies will need to remove several billion tons of CO2 from air annually in order to have measurable impacts and limit global warming, and this requires a multi-directional approach, involving expertise in Earth, atmospheric and ocean sciences as well as engineering. Students will evaluate the feasibility of strategies such as carbon storage in soils and biomass, direct air capture, ocean alkalinity enhancement, carbon mineralization via enhanced weathering, as well as geological storage in sedimentary formations or by mineralization in mafic and ultramafic rocks. This course is intended for both undergraduate and graduate students in EPS, environmental science, engineering, economics and social sciences. There are no pre-requisites, although general Earth science knowledge will help interpreting the readings.