Kristinn Haflidason monitors a photobioreactor at a microalgae production facility in Hellisheiði, Iceland. The company cultivates omega 3-rich algae using waste and geothermal power. The algae are used to improve the survival and growth rate of fish larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks and to improve their nutritional value.
This project documents different technologies that offer possible routes of transition to a net-zero economy. The photographer visited innovative facilities across Europe, from Iceland to Italy, from 2020 to 2022.
Human-induced climate change is the largest, most pervasive threat to the natural environment and society that the world has ever experienced, according to the UN Human Rights Office, OHCHR. This prompted the European Union to establish targets to cut greenhouse emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030 and to reduce them to net-zero by 2050. European companies seeking ways to achieve these goals are exploring renewable energies, new technologies for food production, and the circular economy as potential ways forward.