How innovative initiatives are making green from grey in Karnataka Premium

A bunch of initiatives are trying to make a difference by harnessing emissions of different forms to make commercial value products

Tejas Sidnal, an architect, used to think about building carbon-negative homes, structures that absorb more Carbon dioxide than they emit.

A concept which has started taking off in the West slowly, it is still far from reality in India.

Sidnal realised that it is impossible to build a carbon negative house if you don’t have carbon negative products and construction materials in the first place. This was the beginning of CarbonCraft, a start-up which aims to convert carbon emissions into building materials.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and larger air pollution have been on an upward trend - with the exception of the COVID-19 period - heating up the globe more and more, accelerating climate change and contributing to global health burden.

While the world is yet to see major success in reducing emissions and keeping pollution under check, a bunch of initiatives like CarbonCraft are trying to make a difference by harnessing emissions of different forms to make commercial value products.

Methane constitutes about 16% percent of total GHG emissions today.  

Bengaluru-based bio tech start-up String Bio’s gas fermentation technology converts methane into commercial products such as protein for feed, crop inputs for agriculture and protein for human-grade food.