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Catalytic materials design for upgrading CO2 into value-added fuels and chemicals at low temperature is attractive to reduce carbon pollution and dependence on fossil fuels. In the current issue of Nature Catalysis, Deng, Wang, and colleagues developed a vacancy-rich MoS2 catalyst for hydrogenation of CO2 into methanol with high catalytic activity, excellent selectivity, and industrial-relevant stability. Furthermore, an integration of in situ spectroscopic characterizations and theoretical calculations confirmed the key role of in-plane sulfur vacancies to this hydrogenation catalysis.