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Climeworks Pioneers

Verifiable CO₂ capture more efficient than trees

Climeworks developed the world’s first commercial direct air capture technology to remove CO₂ from air. Our plants capture atmospheric CO₂ to supply to customers or to safely & permanently store underground. Individuals can purchase capture of their emissions.
Engineering an end to climate change | Reuters VideoGeo-engineering an end to climate change is often dismissed as risky, costly, perhaps impossible. But Climeworks in Switzerland has got beyond the research stage and built a trial plant that sucks carbon dioxide out of the air. Reuters' Alister Doyle reports.
Climeworks: Where the world is saved?Climeworks, the direct air capture company founded by Wurzbacher and Gebald in 2009, has demonstrated for the past three years that this seemingly naive idea is actually feasible. The underlying technical principle is known as a "cyclic adsorption-desorption process". In a CO² collector the size of a Smart car, the ambient air is first sucked in by a fan.
A Swiss startup will turn carbon dioxide into stone-for a priceThe world needs negative-emissions technologies, according to an upcoming report by the world's foremost body on climate change. Given how much we've delayed reducing emissions, the world is likely to have emitted much more carbon dioxide than could be handled under the Paris climate agreement.
Climeworks has opened a third plant capturing carbon dioxide from the airIn an upcoming report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is likely to emphasize the need for a slew of techniques to not just cut emissions, but also suck carbon dioxide from the air. Climeworks, a Swiss startup, today (Oct. 1) opened its third such plant in the world.
You can now pay to turn your carbon emissions to stoneIn an effort to avoid emissions from air travel, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg recently chose to sail across the Atlantic to attend a climate summit in New York in September. It's a bold, visible symbol of the sacrifices necessary to reduce global emissions-but still an impractical choice for most climate-conscious travelers.
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Jeremiah Lee
Jeremiah Lee
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I read about Climeworks in Quartz and became a monthly subscriber to offset my carbon emissions, in addition to taking action to reduce them. Planting trees is great and has many benefits besides carbon capture. We need more than trees at this point. One Climeworks collector is 2000 times as efficient as trees in terms of land area covered.
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