Runway to net zero: Climeworks partners with SWISS and Lufthansa Group

11-Mar-2024 - Climeworks, Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), and the Lufthansa Group enter a partnership to jointly accelerate the scale-up of high-quality carbon removal. As part of the agreement, the parties signed a catalytic carbon removal agreement, making SWISS and the Lufthansa Group key first ...

Cost of direct air carbon capture to remain higher than hoped

Three technologies and their costs

05-Mar-2024 - The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped. This is the conclusion reached by ETH researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace, says the research ...

Climeworks and Svante collaborate in development and supply for direct air capture

Both companies agree to collaborate on three major CO₂ removal projects

01-Feb-2024 - Climeworks has signed a collaboration and supply agreement with Svante Technologies Inc. (Svante), a leading carbon capture and removal solutions provider. The companies agreed to jointly plan the supply of Svante’s contactor blocks for three major Climeworks projects, intending to lead to a ...

Digital twins, new cancer treatments and three unicorns

A grand total of 26 spin-​offs were founded at ETH Zurich in 2022

10-Jan-2023 - Their businesses range from new cancer drugs and sustainable water bottles to digital mapping of urban traffic flows. The ETH spin-​off family also welcomed three new unicorns and raised 1.2 billion Swiss francs in fresh capital. These newly founded spin-offs cover a wide variety of fields and ...

Renewable fuels from CO2 & water using 100% renewable electricity

Europe’s first commercial plant for hydrogen-based renewable aviation fuel in Norway planned

15-Jun-2020 - Norsk e-Fuel AS, the new European industry consortium headquartered in Oslo, has announced to industrialize Power-to-Liquid technology (PtL) in Norway for the European Market. The new state-of-the-art project will allow the conversion of Norway’s extensive renewable electricity resources into ...

Climeworks raises CHF 73M

The largest ever private investment into direct air capture

04-Jun-2020 - Climeworks has successfully raised CHF 73 million (USD 75 million) in equity from private investors. This is the largest private investment into direct air capture to date. The funding will help to drive forward the company’s scale-up roadmap and expand its carbon dioxide removal ...

The winners of the innovation award “Best CO2 Utilisation 2020”

02-Apr-2020 - At nova-Institute’s first online conferences on PtX and Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU), 50 speakers presented and discussed the future of aviation fuels and carbon dioxide as feedstock! In the face of the current crisis, nova-Institute decided to defy the circumstances and found a new ...

From Greenhouse Gas to a High-tech Resource

26-Mar-2020 - At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the NECOC research project is aimed at building a unique test facility for active reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The world’s first container-scale facility of this type is to convert CO2 contained in ambient air into highly pure carbon ...

Climeworks AG and Antecy B.V. are joining forces

10-Sep-2019 - Climeworks AG and Antecy B.V. share the same goal of removing climate-relevant amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and joining forces renders this goal more achievable. The combination of their technologies will result in even more powerful solutions for both carbon dioxide removal, as well as ...

New solar mini-refinery

Carbon-neutral fuel made from sunlight and air: Two spin-offs already founded

17-Jun-2019 - Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a novel technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air. For the first time worldwide they demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain under real field conditions. The new solar mini-refinery is located on the ...