1/11 Climate Crisis (iGEM 2023 Grand Jamboree)
Video from: iGEM 2023 Grand Jamboree Final Day Show: https://jamboree.igem.org/2023
During the last century, the accelerated rising of Earth's average air temperature due to the combustion of fossil fuels has had disastrous effects on the global climate. Can synthetic biology be applied to develop carbon fixation technologies which remove greenhouse gasses like CO₂ and CFCs from the atmosphere? Can we improve the existing energy sources, or industrial and agricultural processes to reduce the emission of pollutants like methane or nitrous oxide in the first place? What other approaches to addressing the climate crisis are possible with synthetic biology?
