Sustainability at Climeworks
At Climeworks, we are driven by a shared purpose: to protect our planet, the only home we have. After 15 years, we are today a leading high-quality carbon removal provider, combining decades of expertise in Direct Air Capture technology with holistic carbon removal solutions - leveraging nature-based and engineered solutions side by side.
Climeworks advises companies on their carbon removal strategies and provides tailored portfolios of nature-based and engineered approaches, offering end-to-end services to help achieve net-zero goals. We run the world's first two Direct Air Capture plants in Iceland, demonstrating our core commitment to high-quality carbon removal that is backed by over 15 years of pioneering research, development, and deployment.
By advancing the most reliable solutions in the market, Climeworks accelerates the global transition to net zero, unlocking economic value for businesses, governments, and society.
Read Climeworks' Sustainability Report
2024 ESG achievements
In early 2024, we published our first ever sustainability report for the reporting year 2023. We made progress on our key focus areas defined by the materiality assessment last year. In late 2023, we introduced a new ESG supply chain management, which led to the assessment of 598 newly introduced suppliers in 2024. We followed our community engagement plan in the U.S. during 2024. We continue our dialogue with the communities to ensure our stakeholders are heard and integrated in the build-up of our Direct Air Capture plants' operations.
Our social and environmental health and safety standards have been adapted to the company's growth. Resources have been built up to meet the growing needs in Iceland and the U.S., and we introduced group-wide HSSE champions in every division to underscore and live up to our ZERO harm principles. Our workplace inclusion commitments have been strengthened by a new organization within the ESG governance committee, respectful behavior training, and further bottom-up driven activities. The key ESG targets for our company:
Scaling our technology as well as the whole industry with our high-quality removal portfolio offering
Net zero by 2030, covering 100% of Scope 1, 2, and 3.
Ramp-up of removal capacity towards net-zero target is on track, as we already neutralize all of our plants' grey emission footprint through our own operations of the plants.
A key achievement signals the first ever earned AAA-rating from BeZero, highlighting the quality, permanence, and integrity of our solution.
Climeworkers as our first core value
Our company’s first core value is ‘Climeworkers’, our employees. This underlines our appreciation for each and every team member, and our commitment to a work environment where everyone feels included, welcome, valued, and supported. Climeworks’ incredible progress in the past years has only been possible thanks to our dedicated team.
At Climeworks, our employees come from across 53 nationalities in our offices in Switzerland, the United States, Germany, and Iceland.
The health and safety of our employees and all stakeholders we are involved with is of utmost importance to us. Climeworks operates under the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) approach of Safety Management, which aligns with the ISO 9001 Quality Management System, ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System, and ISO 14001 Environmental Management System standards.
Good Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) management is of the highest priority, and Climeworks operates with a Zero Harm policy to protect our people, environment, and the company. Zero harm applies to both the physical and mental health of our employees. That is why we have trained selected employees in mental first aid (12 people trained under ENSA by the end of 2024) in addition to our regular first aiders (20 people trained).