This article is next in the continuing summer op-ed series which asks leaders in the renewable energy and sustainability industries to speak about where we are today, and where we will be going tomorrow.

The ERC technology not only has the potential to solve the CO2 problem, but it can do it right where industrial manufacturers are located.

Originating at the University of British Columbia, a new technology named ERC (the electro-reduction of carbon dioxide) aims to take CO2 directly from blast furnaces and convert it to formic acid, a valuable chemical with many industrial applications.