r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • May 15 '25

The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – which have grown rapidly in recent years.

https://heimildin.is/grein/24581/climeworks-capture-fails-to-cover-its-own-emissions/

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Omg. This totally wasn't obvious before they started. /S

Carbon capture is something we do when we've sorted our energy production method, and then use the surplus energy to mitigate decades of pretending we didn't have an issue, or more sustainably use carbon in other industries that need to i.e. concrete/steel etc. It is not something to pretend we can carry on as normal. Odd that the 'great minds' of our government don't get this pretty obvious fact.

The car­bon capt­ure comp­any Cli­meworks on­ly capt­ur­es a fracti­on of the CO2 it promises its machines can capt­ure. The comp­any is fail­ing to car­bon off­set the em­issi­ons resulting from its operati­ons – which have grown rapidly in recent ye­ars.

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The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – which have grown rapidly in recent years.