Dr. Volker Sick, Director of the Global CO2 Initiative, gave the Spiers Memorial Lecture at the Royal Society's Faraday Discussion on Carbon Dioxide Utilization on April 7, 2021. This meeting was organized and chaired by Prof. Peter Styring of the University of Sheffield ( see details and the program at https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/400.... We are grateful for the permission granted by the Royal Society of Chemistry to share this recording. The corresponding article can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1FD00029B