The circular economy is a new paradigm aiming at minimizing the consumption of natural resources; whereas renewable energy is the key to the sustainable production of power. Since the supply of raw materials often depends on fossil carbon, the concepts of circular economy and renewable energy systems share the common notion of the decarbonization of the economy. Circular carbon systems and processes is a research area sitting at the interface between the circular economy and the renewable energy systems.

This session shows how reduce, reuse, recycle and remove are the methodologies adopted in circular carbon economy along with H2 production and use for decoupling the economic growth from CO2 emission and fight the cause of the current climate change.