Microsoft Backs Direct Air Capture Player Climeworks

Microsoft this morning disclosed investments in more climate-related companies as part of efforts to make good on its year-old pledge to become “carbon negative” by 2030. From a report: One company the tech behemoth is staking is Climeworks, a firm looking to scale up deployment of direct air capture technology that removes CO2 already in the atmosphere. The size of the…

China’s 2060 net-zero goal needs large-scale negative emissions tech

China pledged last month to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, but to do so may require extracting 2.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the air each year Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258229-chinas-2060-net-zero-goal-needs-large-scale-negative-emissions-tech/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…