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Professor Yutaka Amao, Director of the Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, and Mika Takeuchi, a first-year master’s student at the Graduate School of Science, were interviewed by the Royal Society of Chemistry about a paper they published in the first issue "RSC Sustainability", a new journal launched by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The first issue of "RSC Sustainability" came out at the start of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is being held from November 6 to 18. During the livestream interview Professor Amao addressed COP27, proposing that CO₂ be used as a raw material, stored in a durable solid form, such as for biodegradable plastic—thereby contributing to carbon reduction—by combining carbon dioxide with other organic compounds using a biocatalyst.