MAKING MONEY FROM CARBON
As well as being the company to build the largest carbon capture factory in the world, Climeworks also produced the first commercial air capture plant. In 2017, the company launched a smaller carbon capture plant in Switzerland. Instead of disposing of the carbon below ground, the CO2 extracted from the air at this plant is sold on to other companies. Some of the CO2 is used by a nearby greenhouse to increase vegetable production, while some can be bought by food and drink industries. If more companies source their CO2 from carbon capture plants, less will need to be produced by fossil fuels and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere can be reduced.