Companies are sucking carbon from the atmosphere using ‘direct air capture’.
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- Apr 24, 2022
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Written by: VICTORIA MASTERSON
Published: April 25th, 2022
How does it work?
Direct air capture involves removing CO2 from the air and storing or reusing it.
The world’s first large-scale plant is being built in the United States.
Companies such as Microsoft, Shopify and Swiss Re are buying into direct air capture to offset their emissions.
But a massive scale-up in facilities is needed to help the world reach net zero by 2050, says the International Energy Agency.
The world’s journey towards net zero emissions is taking us down many new roads when it comes to technology. Electric vehicles and renewable energy are among those helping us to stop emitting carbon, but direct air capture takes another approach – sucking CO2 we emit back out of the atmosphere.
Direct air capture could be a solution for combatting carbon emissions that are hard to avoid – like those from certain industries – and for removing carbon that has been emitted over past decades.
This article was first published by the World Economic Forum.
