ClimbWorks Carbon Capture - How Important Is It?

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Bob Safian: I'm here with Christoph Gebald, co-founder and co-CEO of Carbon Capture from ClimbWorks. This is a dream for many climate watchers that this kind of technology could be successful. How significant was reaching this benchmark? We started, actually to do this already 15 years ago, to develop technology to pull carbon out of the air,. Some five years ago started to put it in the ground.

The carbon-capture industry notched a breakthrough in early 2023, when Climeworks became the first company to be third-party certified for taking carbon out of the air and mineralizing it underground. Climeworks co-founder and co-CEO Christoph Gebald is now racing to scale this new potential, from Iceland to Oman to the United States, by convincing investors, corporate partners, and governments to support a new pillar in the quest for net-zero goals. Christoph points to both serendipity and learning from mistakes as key in helping Climeworks navigate the steep path required in addressing climate-crisis.

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