Kati Koponen
Kati Koponen is senior scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. As a researcher, her expertise is climate change mitigation, carbon dioxide removal, CCUS, bioenergy and climate impact assessment.She’s also a member of the Finnish Climate Change Panel since 2024. She’s among the authors of a report commissioned by the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy in 2025 on the role of Direct Air Capture (DAC).
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A scientist's opinion: interview with Kati Koponen on removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Kati Koponen is senior scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. She’s among the authors of a report commissioned by the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy on the role of Direct Air Capture (DAC). What are the major carbon dioxide capture technologies currently... -
Carbon dioxide removal technologies: can they help us fight climate change?
The final document of the last United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly known as COP30, acknowledges that the world is approaching an overshoot – that is, exceeding the 1.5 °C global warming threshold. Reducing future emission will be essential, but no longer sufficient: we will also need...