Cambridge Enterprise invests in a technology start-up aiming to cut CO2 emissions by gigatonnes | University of Cambridge

Concrete building under construction Credit: Photo by Yogendra Singh on Unsplash The investment will accelerate the development of AI technology start-up Carbon Re to help the global cement industry and other energy-intensive industries reach net zero targets. Energy intensive industries, like cement, are among the hardest sectors to decarbonise. Carbon Re has a great team and a great technology that can be deployed today to save millions in energy and greenhouse gas emissions. Chris Gibbs, Investment Manager, Cambridge Enterprise The  Enterprise Fund has joined in a £1 million investment in Carbon Re, a UK climate tech start-up that uses artificial intelligence to cut CO2 emissions in the global cement industry and other hard-to-abate industrial processes. Carbon Re combines world-class deep reinforcement learning-a field of artificial intelligence best suited to managing complex decision-making-and industrial sustainability expertise from the 's Institute for Manufacturing and UCL's Energy Institute. Carbon Re's cloud-based platform, Delta Zero, uses powerful AI tools to achieve operational efficiencies in energy intensive industries, such as cement production, reducing operational costs and carbon emissions to otherwise unachievable levels. Delta Zero enables immediate reductions in energy consumption, cost and carbon emissions, with no capital expenditure.