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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.
25.08.2021
Wall Street Journal - Swiss Re, Climeworks Strike 10-Year Carbon-Removal Deal
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.
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23.07.2021
CNBC - These companies are sucking carbon out of the atmosphere — and investors are piling in
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.
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23.06.2021
The Economist Group includes Climeworks’ carbon dioxide removal in its sustainability strategy
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
Climeworks’ direct air capture plant Orca has achieved validation by DNV
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14.06.2021
Dezeen - "We're mining the sky because there's too much carbon in it" says Climeworks
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.
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06.06.2021
Tages Anzeiger - CO₂-Speicher zu verkaufen
Island will Kohlendioxid von seinen Nachbarländern per Schiff einsammeln, um esim heimischen Lavagestein einzulagern
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01.06.2021
Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple, purchases 300 tons of carbon dioxide removal from Climeworks
A groundbreaking private effort in removing CO₂ from the air!
27.05.2021
The Financial Times - Offset start-ups devise smart ways to trap carbon
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.
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19.05.2021
Climeworks and 44.01 to unlock the storage potential for air-captured CO₂
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
NY Mag - How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air
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.
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18.04.2021
The Guardian - Vodka, toothpaste, yoga mats … the new technology making items out of thin air
An exhibition at London’s Science Museum shows how far carbon capture research has come.
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15.04.2021
From science to reality: Climeworks is part of the Science Museum’s exhibition 'Our Future Planet' in London
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
BBC Future - The hydrogen revolution in the skies
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?
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10.03.2021
Climeworks and Northern Lights to jointly explore direct air capture and CO₂ storage in Norway
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
Reuters - Norwegian and Swiss partners to explore capturing CO₂ from air
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.
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08.02.2021
Zenid – Sustainable Aviation Fuel from Air
Climeworks is part of the consortium that launches Zenid - a demonstration plant producing fully circular sustainable aviation fuel directly from air.
05.02.2021
World Economic Forum - Carbon capture: solution or sideshow? Episode 9 of the House On Fire podcast
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?
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05.02.2021
National Geographic - Can carbon capture make flying more sustainable?
It’s more effective than traditional carbon offsets, so airlines and travelers are starting to get on board.
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04.02.2021
New study confirms direct air capture’s potential as an efficient solution to stop climate change
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
Reuters - Scared by global warming? In Iceland, one solution is petrifying
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.
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29.01.2021
Climework's solution is part of Microsoft's plan to reach negative emissions
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
Bloomberg - Microsoft Climate Fund Backs Climeworks Effort to Suck Up Carbon
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.
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23.01.2021
Bloomberg - Musk’s $100 Million Prize Is for Tech the World Desperately Needs
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.
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21.01.2021
MIT Technology Review - What Musk’s $100 million carbon capture prize could mean
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.
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18.01.2021
The New York Times - Businesses Aim to Pull Greenhouse Gases From the Air. It’s a Gamble.
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.
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30.12.2020
GreenBiz - 2020 was a breakthrough year for climate tech, and there’s more to come in 2021
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.
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09.12.2020
Gstaad and Climeworks enable winter sport fans to take climate action
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 Climeworks' new direct air capture and storage plant Orca has started
The rapid construction of Orca has just started: it will take six months and comprises two phases.
02.12.2020
Forbes - The Future Of Carbon Capture Is In The Air
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.
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23.11.2020
Climeworks launches climate-positive gifts
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
Climeworks signs-up Shopify to its carbon dioxide removal programme
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
Building a truly sustainable aviation industry
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
The Washington Post - Stopping climate change could cost less than fighting covid-19
Promising interventions exist, and it wouldn’t be all that expensive to deploy them.
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17.09.2020
The Economist - Green Machines
A wave of innovation may help tackle climate change.
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08.09.2020
Direct Air Capture Summit 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.