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15.09.2022
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
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 is the latest and largest financial services company to commit to Climeworks’ carbon removal service
29.08.2022
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.
Read more29.08.2022
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.
Read more11.08.2022
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.
Read more18.07.2022
Read up on the key take-aways of this year's Direct Air Capture summit, hosted by Climeworks!
13.07.2022
Climeworks is proud to take its collaboration with Microsoft to the next level with a new, 10-year carbon removal agreement.
30.06.2022
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.
Read more28.06.2022
Groundbreaking on Mammoth, Climeworks’ newest direct air capture and storage facility, has started.
28.06.2022
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.
Read more14.06.2022
Climeworks has published its first industry snapshot report about the latest trends, insights and developments in the direct air capture industry.
08.06.2022
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
Nascent technology to pull carbon from atmosphere is fastest-growing area in climate finance.
Read more23.05.2022
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
The delay in cutting emissions is opening up opportunities for technologies that promise to undo climate damage.
Read more12.04.2022
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
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 made it to the list of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 in the category "Innovators"
30.03.2022
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
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
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.
Read more03.03.2022
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
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 was named a 2022 Global Cleantech 100 Company by the Cleantech Group.
28.12.2021
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.
Read more25.12.2021
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.
Read more20.12.2021
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
Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, has signed a 10-year agreement with Climeworks.
09.12.2021
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.
Read more02.12.2021
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.
Read more30.11.2021
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 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
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?
Read more08.11.2021
Leading scientific agencies say even if the world manages to stop producing harmful emissions, that won’t be enough to stop a climate catastrophe
Read more05.11.2021
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.
Read more01.11.2021
Climeworks’ new plant in Iceland scrubs greenhouse gas CO2 directly out of the air
Read more31.10.2021
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.
Read more22.10.2021
The world’s largest carbon capture plant is seizing the imaginations — and sparking the hope — of climate activists, entrepreneurs, and scientists.
Read more20.10.2021
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.
Read more14.10.2021
Coldplay has selected Climeworks’ carbon dioxide removal as part of their new sustainability portfolio.
24.09.2021
From turning CO2 into rock to capturing the breath of office workers, a growing number of companies think the answer is yes
Read more21.09.2021
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
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
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
Read more14.09.2021
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.
Read more08.09.2021
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
Startups Climeworks and Carbfix are working together to store carbon dioxide removed from the air deep underground.
Read more26.08.2021
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.
Read more25.08.2021
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.