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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.
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.
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
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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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!
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.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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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.