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Climeworks' co-founders and co-CEOs, Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher
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15.09.2022

U.S.: Climeworks is ready to contribute to the American DAC ecosystem

The time is right to further contribute our expertise in DAC to the U.S., an ecosystem with forward momentum in DAC, a skilled talent pool, and an experienced network of companies and civil society stakeholders.

PwC Switzerland has selected Climeworks' high-quality carbon removal service
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05.09.2022

Catalyzing Swiss innovation: PwC Switzerland signs 9-year carbon removal contract with Climeworks

PwC Switzerland has selected Climeworks' high-quality carbon removal service to help achieve their goal of reaching net zero GHG emissions by 2030.

UBS has signed a ten-year agreement with Climeworks
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30.08.2022

UBS signs 10-year agreement with Climeworks, underlining the financial services industry’s central role in scaling carbon removal

UBS is the latest and largest financial services company to commit to Climeworks’ carbon removal service

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29.08.2022

Euronews: What is carbon removal? Experts explain why only cutting CO2 emissions isn't enough

As CO2 emissions continue to climb, experts say our chances of averting drastic climate change will rest not just on reigning in pollution, but also on removing carbon from the atmosphere.

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29.08.2022

Euronews - What is carbon removal? Experts explain why only cutting CO2 emissions isn't enough

As CO2 emissions continue to climb, experts say our chances of averting drastic climate change will rest not just on reigning in pollution, but also on removing carbon from the atmosphere.

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11.08.2022

FT: Racing against the clock to decarbonise the planet

On a desolate, snow-dusted stretch of Icelandic tundra, east of Reykjavik, eight giant metal boxes, stacked in twos, rise out of the ground on concrete stilts. Along one side, numerous black fans whirr continuously, sucking in the cool air.

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Read up on the key take-aways of this year's Direct Air Capture summit, hosted by Climeworks!
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18.07.2022

Climeworks' Direct Air Capture Summit 2022 highlights

Read up on the key take-aways of this year's Direct Air Capture summit, hosted by Climeworks!

Climeworks and Microsoft sign 10-year carbon removal agreement
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13.07.2022

Climeworks becomes first supplier of long-term, technology-based carbon removal to Microsoft, as the companies sign a 10-year offtake agreement

Climeworks is proud to take its collaboration with Microsoft to the next level with a new, 10-year carbon removal agreement.

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30.06.2022

HIBT Lab! (podcast): Climeworks - Jan Wurzbacher

This week on How I Built This Lab, Guy talks with Jan Wurzbacher, co-founder and CEO of Climeworks. They discuss how Jan and his team built the world’s largest direct air capture facility, which filters carbon dioxide from the air and stores it permanently underground. Plus, Jan’s optimistic vision of how humans can achieve the goal of reversing climate change.

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Digital rendering of Climeworks' Mammoth plant (©2022, Climeworks. Illustrative purposes only.)
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28.06.2022

Climeworks takes another major step on its road to building gigaton DAC capacity

Groundbreaking on Mammoth, Climeworks’ newest direct air capture and storage facility, has started.

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28.06.2022

CNBC - From milligrams to gigatons: Startup that sucks carbon dioxide from the air is building a big plant in Iceland

CNBC's Cat Clifford reports on Climeworks' announcement that it has started groundbreaking of "Mammoth" - Climeworks' second commercial-sized plant in Iceland - and traces the beginnings of Climeworks.

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Climeworks has published its first industry snapshot report
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14.06.2022

A look at the direct air capture industry today

Climeworks has published its first industry snapshot report about the latest trends, insights and developments in the direct air capture industry.

Climeworks' CMO Julie Gosalvez and Stripe's Head of Climate Nan Ransohoff discussed the advance market commitment of Frontier
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08.06.2022

Accelerating the market for carbon removal | Insights with Stripe

Climeworks hosted a virtual event to dive into the USD 925 million advance market commitment (AMC) by Stripe's recently launched Frontier fund and discuss how it will help to scale up permanent carbon removal technologies.

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08.06.2022

Wall Street Journal - Carbon Removal Industry Draws Billions to Fight Climate Change

Nascent technology to pull carbon from atmosphere is fastest-growing area in climate finance.

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La Prairie collaborates with Climeworks to remove the emissions generated by its new product
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23.05.2022

La Prairie collaborates with Climeworks to neutralize emissions of its new product

La Prairie collaborates with Climeworks to permanently remove the emissions generated during the production of its new product on behalf of its on-site clients.

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03.05.2022

Bloomberg - Musk and Google Add to $2 Billion Boost for Carbon Removal

The delay in cutting emissions is opening up opportunities for technologies that promise to undo climate damage.

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Verdane will neutralize all future residual emissions with technological carbon removals
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12.04.2022

Verdane to neutralize all future residual emissions with engineered carbon removals

Verdane has selected Climeworks as one of three companies to permanently remove all its future residual emissions. With this commitment, the equity investor aims to catalyze demand for crucial net zero technologies.

Swiss mobility provider AMAG neutralizes part of its unavoidable CO₂ emissions with Climeworks
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08.04.2022

The AMAG Group relies on Climeworks' technology to drive forward its climate strategy

As part of its climate strategy, the AMAG group has selected Climeworks to remove part of its unavoidable CO₂ emissions, which will help the Swiss mobility provider to achieve net zero by 2040.

Climeworks' direct air capture and storage plant Orca
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31.03.2022

Climeworks was named one of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies

Climeworks made it to the list of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 in the category "Innovators"

Swarovski signed a carbon removal agreement with Climeworks
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30.03.2022

Swarovski signs agreement with Climeworks as part of its ongoing sustainability strategy

Swarovski has signed a 5-year carbon removal agreement with Climeworks, highlighting that companies should not only commit to pollute less in the future but also permanently remove their historic emissions from the past.

A Climeworks and Carbon180 event
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22.03.2022

The future of direct air capture policy: a Climeworks and Carbon180 event

Climeworks and Carbon180 hosted a virtual fireside chat to discuss the latest carbon dioxide removal policy developments and to shed more light on the topic of stakeholder engagement, which is essential for the success of any future direct air capture project.

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22.03.2022

Reuters - New life injected into ambition of capturing CO₂ from air

Angeli Mehta reports on how demand from corporates and government incentives are helping companies like Climeworks and Carbon Engineering remove carbon directly from the atmosphere.

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Zendesk signs carbon removal agreement with Climeworks
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03.03.2022

Zendesk supports Climeworks' technology and signs carbon removal agreement

Customer service and sales software company Zendesk permanently removes part of its unavoidable emissions with Climeworks and sends an important signal for the much-needed scale-up of direct air capture as an innovative climate tech solution.

Climeworks has signed a 10-year carbon dioxide removal agreement with Rothesay
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08.02.2022

Rothesay takes action with Climeworks to make its own operations net zero for the next decade

The UK's largest pension insurance specialist has signed a 10-year carbon removal agreement with Climeworks, proving that the interest in long-term access to high-quality carbon removals is growing.

Global Cleantech 2022
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13.01.2022

Climeworks is selected for 2022 Global Cleantech 100 list of companies committed to taking action on climate crisis

Climeworks was named a 2022 Global Cleantech 100 Company by the Cleantech Group. 

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28.12.2021

Wired - The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change

On a barren lava plateau in Iceland, a new facility is sucking in air and stashing the carbon dioxide in rock. The next step: Build 10,000 more.

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25.12.2021

Yahoo News - 10 Images That Explain What to Expect From Climate Change

Climate change in 2022 doesn’t exactly look bright, but it does have bright spots. Here are 10 images that explain what we can look forward to—and what we ought to prepare for.

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LGT and Climeworks close one of the largest-ever direct air capture agreements
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20.12.2021

LGT and Climeworks close one of the largest-ever direct air capture agreements – the financial services industry at the forefront of carbon removal 

Climeworks will permanently remove 9'000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air for LGT. This is the third ten-year agreement for Climeworks and demonstrates that long-term demand of high-quality carbon dioxide removal is strongly increasing.

BCG signs 10-year direct air capture partnership with Climeworks
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09.12.2021

BCG signs direct air capture partnership with Climeworks, a key step on the firm’s journey to net-zero climate impact by 2030

Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, has signed a 10-year agreement with Climeworks.

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09.12.2021

The Daily Mail - Boston Consulting teams up with carbon capture technology company

Boston Consulting Group has teamed up with carbon capture technology company Climeworks to help to develop its business, which focuses on capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air.

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02.12.2021

The Washington Post - Carbon Capture: The Vacuum the Climate May Depend On

The most recent report by the world’s top climate scientists was alarmingly clear: If we are to avoid the most calamitous consequences of warming our planet, we must get as good at taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as we’ve been at putting it in.

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Square purchases 2'000 tons of CO₂ removals from Climeworks as part of its net zero carbon commitment
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30.11.2021

Square, Inc. partners with Climeworks to remove 2'000 tons of CO₂ from the air

Leading financial services company Square, Inc. is the latest customer of Climeworks, purchasing 2'000 tons of CO₂ removals as part of its net zero carbon commitment which it announced last year.

Ocado Retail purchases Climeworks’ carbon dioxide removal
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16.11.2021

Ocado Retail purchases Climeworks’ carbon dioxide removal as part of their wider sustainability strategy

Ocado Retail purchases 1’000 tons of carbon dioxide removal from Climeworks, which will help to make the headquarters of the online supermarket net zero.

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12.11.2021

BBC - Seven ways to curb climate change

The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow has been billed as a last chance to limit global warming to 1.5C. But beyond the deals and photo opportunities, what are the key things countries need to do in order to tackle climate change?

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08.11.2021

The Independent - Air-scrubbing machines gain momentum, but long way to go

Leading scientific agencies say even if the world manages to stop producing harmful emissions, that won’t be enough to stop a climate catastrophe

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05.11.2021

The New York Times - Energy Department Aims to Slash Cost of Removing Carbon From the Air

Scientists say carbon removal may be needed to avert the worst effects of climate change. But it still needs to be much cheaper and more reliable.

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01.11.2021

FOX Weather - ‘We’re boxing in the Last Chance Saloon’: How one company aims to take on climate change

Climeworks’ new plant in Iceland scrubs greenhouse gas CO2 directly out of the air

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31.10.2021

The New York Times - Is Carbon Capture Here?

A Swiss company is operating a device in Iceland that sucks CO2 from the air and shoots it into the ground, where it turns into rock.

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22.10.2021

The Boston Globe - These machines could save the world

The world’s largest carbon capture plant is seizing the imaginations — and sparking the hope — of climate activists, entrepreneurs, and scientists.

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20.10.2021

CNN - The world is banking on giant carbon-sucking fans to clean our climate mess. It's a big risk.

The Orca plant — its name derived from the Icelandic word for energy — is what is known as a "direct air carbon capture facility," and its creator and operator,Swiss firm Climeworks,say it's the world's largest.

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Coldplay supports Climeworks
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14.10.2021

Hymn for the planet: Climeworks part of sustainability portfolio of Coldplay’s next tour

Coldplay has selected Climeworks’ carbon dioxide removal as part of their new sustainability portfolio.

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24.09.2021

The Guardian - Climate crisis: do we need millions of machines sucking CO2 from the air?

From turning CO2 into rock to capturing the breath of office workers, a growing number of companies think the answer is yes

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21.09.2021

Climeworks enables you to remove your footprint for zero emissions day

For Zero Emissions Day on 21st September, the idea is to give the world a break from fossil fuels and to raise awareness about the harm caused by carbon emissions. Climeworks enables you to calculate your footprint and give the planet a day off by removing CO₂ from the air.

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15.09.2021

Climeworks' Direct Air Capture Summit 2021

On 14-15th September Climeworks successfully hosted the second version of its Direct Air Capture Summit, focusing on the acceleration of the carbon removal market.

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15.09.2021

The Economist - The world’s biggest carbon-removal plant switches on

Shortly after 6pm on September 9th, the Orca carbon capture plant, just outside Reykjavik in Iceland, switched on its fans and began sucking carbon dioxide from the air. The sound was subtle—a bit like a gurgling stream

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14.09.2021

Reuters - World's largest plant capturing carbon from air starts in Iceland

The world's largest plant that sucks carbon dioxide directly from the air and deposits it underground is due to start operating on Wednesday, the company behind the nascent green technology said.

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Co-CEOs Jan Wurzbacher and Christoph Gebald stand in front of the direct air capture plant Orca
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08.09.2021

Climeworks begins operations of Orca, the world’s largest direct air capture and CO₂ storage plant

Orca is the first-of-its-kind plant that translates the vision of industrial-scale direct air capture and storage into reality.

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08.09.2021

Bloomberg - World’s Largest Carbon-Sucking Plant Starts Making Tiny Dent in Emissions

Startups Climeworks and Carbfix are working together to store carbon dioxide removed from the air deep underground.

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26.08.2021

Bloomberg - Swiss Re Signed a $10 Million Carbon Capture Deal

Reinsurance giant Swiss Re announced Wednesday that it had signed the world’s first long-term agreement to take carbon directly out of the air. The contract with Climeworks AG, one of the world’s leading direct air-capture startups, will net the climate technology company $10 million over 10 years.

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Climeworks and Swiss Re sign the world’s first and largest 10-year purchase agreement for direct air capture and storage of carbon dioxide
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25.08.2021

Climeworks and Swiss Re sign the world’s first and largest 10-year purchase agreement for direct air capture and storage of carbon dioxide

Swiss Re committed in 2019 to reach net-zero operational emissions by 2030 by reducing their carbon footprint and removing any residual emissions. They are walking the talk by committing to a unique long-term partnership with Climeworks. Swiss Re and Climeworks are launching a cutting-edge collaboration by signing the worlds’ first 10-year carbon removal purchase agreement.