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With the progressive increase in atmospheric CO2 over the years and owing to its potential environmental threat, researchers have focused their attention on the fruitful utilization of CO2 into value-added chemicals and feedstocks. Although CO2 conversion reactions are intensively studied through several electrochemical, photochemical and photo-electrochemical pathways, chemical reduction of CO2 is more challenging to achieve due to the involvement of breaking of high energy CO bonds without any applied potential together with the accomplishment of green chemistry perspectives. Considerable progress in the chemical reduction of CO2 in the presence of reducing agents over homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts has been achieved over the years. However, this technology has several pitfalls to overcome before it can be utilized in large scale industrial processes. We show here the recent progress …