I’m very conscious of the fact that you can’t do it alone. It’s teamwork. When you do it alone you run the risk that when you are no longer there nobody else will do it.
– Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
The Story of CO2 would not have been possible without the help and support of numerous colleagues and friends.
First and foremost, we thank both past and present members of the Solar Fuels team at the University of Toronto: Paul Duchesne, Meikun Xia, Thomas Wood, Alexandra Tavasoli, Young Li, Nhat Truong Nguyen, Jon Babi, Wendy He, Abhinav Mohan, Thomas Dingle, Abdinoor Jelle, Camilo Viasus, Zhao Li, Lourdes Hurtado, Yang Fan Xu, Yuchan Dong, Navid Soheilnia, Athan Tountas, Wei Sun, Chenxi Qian, Leo Diehl, Annabelle Wong, Joller Wang, Kulbir Kaur Ghuman, Jia Jia, Laura Reyes, Paul O’Brien, and Laura Hoch. Your research efforts, creative energy, and unfailing teamwork have served as a tremendous motivator throughout the writing process. Most importantly, our thanks go to Sue Mamiche-Afara and Tamika Clarence for ensuring that the wheels of the group kept turning no matter what. We are forever grateful to be able to work with such an incredibly talented team of diverse and hardworking individuals.
An enormous thank-you goes to Leah Connor, Stephen Jones, and the rest of the team at the University of Toronto Press for believing in the story and helping us navigate the publishing process.
Our thanks go to colleagues both at home and around the world who have lent their brilliant minds to discussing everything from surface chemistry to microreactor design to solar thermal engineering to climate economics. To Peter Styring, Mohini Sain, Roland Dittmeyer, Aldo Steinfeld, Christos Maravelias, Chandra Veer Singh, Hermenegildo Garcia, Thomas Mallouk, Charles Mims, Robert Morris, Dvira Segal, Ben Hatton, Keith Butler, and Aron Walsh: your collaboration, support, creativity, and technical advice over the years have been invaluable to many of the ideas expressed in this book.
A huge thank-you goes to Erik Haites, environmental economist at Margaree Consultants; Jeffrey MacIntosh, professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Richard Hall of Desjardins Insurance; and Robert Davies, lawyer, whose appraisals and editing of the book’s contents have proved to be invaluable.
Mireille thanks colleagues Alexandra Tavasoli, Molly Sung, Ellen Gute, and Stafford Sheehan, as well as Hannah Ellix, Melanie Vasselin, Fauziya Issa, and Aleksandar Arsovski, for their invaluable conversation and feedback. She also thanks Joseph, Michelle, Louise, and Nassif for their unwavering support and encouragement.
Finally, we thank our partners, Linda and Rafa, for their love and patience throughout the tumultuous journey that is the writing process. We could not have done it without you.