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05.11.2021
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.
25.08.2021
Swiss Re AG has signed a 10-year, $10 million agreement with Swiss startup Climeworks AG to capture carbon dioxide and turn it into underground rock, a deal set to give the reinsurer early access to novel carbon-removal tools.
Read more23.07.2021
The race to reduce carbon emissions is heating up, much like the planet itself is. But reducing emissions alone will not be enough to stop what’s happening.
Read more23.06.2021
The Economist Group is taking climate action and proactively supporting the scale-up of direct air capture by purchasing Climeworks’ carbon dioxide removal.
15.06.2021
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14.06.2021
Carbon is the most valuable resource on earth, according to Climeworks, which has developed machines that suck it from the air so it can be turned into useful materials.
Read more06.06.2021
Island will Kohlendioxid von seinen Nachbarländern per Schiff einsammeln, um esim heimischen Lavagestein einzulagern
Read more01.06.2021
A groundbreaking private effort in removing CO₂ from the air!
27.05.2021
In a geothermal park in southern Iceland, four squat towers with giant fans will soon whirr into life. Built by Climeworks, a Swiss start-up, the towers will extract carbon dioxide from the air and inject it deep underground, where it turns to rock.
Read more19.05.2021
Swiss company Climeworks and Omani company 44.01 join forces to unlock the potential of geological storage of air-captured CO₂ in the Middle East in a first-of-its-kind test project.
18.05.2021
In a clearing on the edge of the Black Forest in southern Germany, a modified shipping container painted an immaculate white sits near a field of solar panels.
Read more18.04.2021
An exhibition at London’s Science Museum shows how far carbon capture research has come.
Read more15.04.2021
Climeworks is an object lender for the Science Museum’s exhibition Our Future Planet in London, which showcases different carbon capture solutions
08.04.2021
A record-breaking commercial-scale hydrogen plane has taken off in the UK, with more set to join it soon. How far can such planes go in cutting the aviation industry's emissions?
Read more10.03.2021
Climeworks and Northern Lights have agreed to explore the realisation of a full-chain CO₂ removal project in Norway. This marks an important milestone in the direction of commercialising critical climate technology.
09.03.2021
OSLO (Reuters) - Equinor-led Northern Lights venture and Swiss start-up Climeworks will explore the potential for capturing carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere in Norway, the partners said on Tuesday.
Read more08.02.2021
Climeworks is part of the consortium that launches Zenid - a demonstration plant producing fully circular sustainable aviation fuel directly from air.
05.02.2021
In the ninth episode of House on Fire we ask what role direct air capture has to play in the global effort to decarbonise. With progress on the Paris goals still painfully slow, and the pandemic giving us an insight into the scale of task ahead to bring emissions down to safe levels, do we need to pay more attention to this technology?
Read more05.02.2021
It’s more effective than traditional carbon offsets, so airlines and travelers are starting to get on board.
Read more04.02.2021
A scientific life cycle assessment by an independent university confirms that Climeworks' direct air capture can play a major role in stopping climate change. The study clearly states that the environmental benefits of the technology far outweigh its impact, and that both the resources and energy required for climate-relevant scales of direct air capture are available - confirming the technology could remove up to billions of tons of CO₂ from the air per year.
04.02.2021
OSLO, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a barren hillside in southwest Iceland, workers are installing huge fans to suck carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone deep below ground, in a radical - but expensive - way to fight global warming.
Read more29.01.2021
This is a significant step in the race against climate change: Climeworks is the direct air capture technology that has been selected as part of Microsoft's carbon removal portfolio to reach negative emissions by 2030 and remove the company's historic emissions by 2050.
28.01.2021
Microsoft Corp. said its climate fund will invest in Swiss carbon-removal startup Climeworks AG, and that the company will base executive pay partially on meeting sustainability goals.
Read more23.01.2021
Past comments suggest Musk hopes to lower the price of direct-air carbon capture so it can be used to make cheap zero-emission rocket fuel.
Read more21.01.2021
Tesla’s CEO is using a little of his growing wealth to accelerate progress on ways to prevent carbon dioxide pollution or pull it from the sky.
Read more18.01.2021
A surge of corporate money could soon transform carbon removal from science fiction to reality. But there are risks: The very idea could offer industry an excuse to maintain dangerous habits.
Read more30.12.2020
Almost exactly 12 long, long months ago, I pontificated about the "roaring" decade to come for artificial intelligence. While 2020 was completely bonkers for so many reasons, all five areas where I predicted AI would have the most demonstrable impact — energy management ($8 billion in spending from 2020 to 2024), improving soil conditions ($360 million more for Indigo Ag), modeling climate risks (Microsoft’s "Planetary Computer," anyone?), protecting biodiversity and boosting supply chain traceability— continued to progress.
Read more09.12.2020
Winter sports and climate action: Destination Gstaad and Climeworks enable skiers to remove carbon dioxide from the air.
02.12.2020
The rapid construction of Orca has just started: it will take six months and comprises two phases.
02.12.2020
While renewable energy is now widely accepted as the cheapest form of electricity generation, energy demand growth, government growth requirements and the need for a just transition mean fossil fuels will still have a role. But for that to work with climate goals, carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology must be mainstreamed. In Iceland, Climeworks is showing how direct air capture/storage (DAC) could change the game.
Read more23.11.2020
Thousands of people rely on Climeworks' carbon dioxide removal service. If you want to inspire others to take climate action, a Climeworks subscription is the ideal gift. This unique climate-positive gift will permanently remove carbon dioxide from the air in their name.
21.10.2020
In order to help mitigate climate change, we need pioneering organizations to take bold actions to support the scale-up of much-needed climate solutions, such as Climeworks’ direct air capture technology. Shopify is one such pioneer.
21.09.2020
Although passenger traffic is currently at the lowest levels since the 1970s due to the ongoing pandemic, the need for climate action has not subsided.
17.09.2020
Promising interventions exist, and it wouldn’t be all that expensive to deploy them.
Read more17.09.2020
A wave of innovation may help tackle climate change.
Read more08.09.2020
On 8th September 2020, Climeworks hosted the Direct Air Capture Summit 2020, a conference discussing carbon dioxide removal solutions and their potential to help stop global warming. This is the recording of all keynotes.