Making CO₂ a Resource

Øyvind Stokke is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His research focuses on environmental philosophy and degrowth, climate ethics, the assessment of technological sustainability, and deliberative democracy theory. Stokke has been co-leading the research project Transforming CO2 to capital by interdisciplinary CCU optimisation strategies (iCCU) (UiT 2017–2023), which explores CO2 Capture and Utilisation (CCU) by taking into account environmental, ethical, informationtechnological and economic aspects, and was the leader of the pre-project The ARC Methodology (UiT 2021) exploring the grounds for a methodology assessing technological sustainability based on synergy effects between nature and technology. He was member of the research consortium in the project Political Philosophy looks to Antarctica (RCN 2017–2020) which explored moral and legal issues of natural resource justice in the Antarctic Treaty System. Stokke initiated and led Environmental Philosophy Research Group and was a member of the leader group of the Arctic Center for Sustainable Energy at the UiT from 2016 to 2020.Elin M. Oftedal is a professor of Change Management and Innovation at the Institute of Media and Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger. Her research focuses on sustainable and responsible innovation and entrepreneurship, institutional change, legitimacy, cultural entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial universities. She has initiated, participated in and co-led impactful projects, such as on academic entrepreneurship: “Academic Entrepreneurship– from University Research to Implementation and Commercialization of Innovations – a Comparative Study.” Responsible innovation: “Digitalize or Die: Dynamic Drivers of Responsible Research and Innovation in Health and Welfare Service” and “Releasing the Power of Users – Articulating User Interest to Accelerate New Innovative Pathways in the Digital Health and Welfare Sector.” Sustainable business practices in: Transforming CO2 to Capital by Interdisciplinary CCU Optimisation Strategies (iCCU). She is a member of the AFINO network, which goal is to establish broad dialogues and shared commitments to ensure that innovation contributes to a more just, inclusive and sustainable Norway.

• 1. Making CO2 a resource: Green innovation for an ecological economy. An introductionØyvind Stokke and Elin M. Oftedal2. Industrial CO2 capturing by mass cultivation of microalgae (diatoms): Processes, sustainability and applicationsHans Chr. Eilertsen, Richard A. Ingebrigtsen, and Anja Striberny3. New marine ingredients for future salmonid feeds Sten Ivar Siikavuopio & Edel Elvevoll4. Sustainable Development Goals, Human Rights, and the Capability Approach in an Arctic contextAnna-Karin M. Andersson5. Transforming Resources: The University as a CO2 Catalyst Elin M. Oftedal and Øyvind Stokke6. IoT expectations and challenges in monitoring the bio-reactorsRoopam Bamal, Daniel Bamal, and Singara Singh Kasana7. From CCS to CCU and CCUS – the pitfalls of utilization and storageOluf Langhelle, Siddharth Sareen, and Benjamin R. Silvester8. Black is the New Green: Sustainable diffusion of Innovation Ukeje Agwu, Tahrir Jaber, and Elin M. Oftedal9. Attuning Our Consumption and Food Production Systems to the Environmental Reality: An Environmental Virtue Ethics Approach to Algae Based Carbon Capture and Utilization, and Feed Use in Salmon Farming Erik Strømsheim10. Unifying the threads: IS Carbon a Resource? Øyvind Stokke and Elin M. OftedalIndex