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From 16-20 January, Climeworks will participate in the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. This year’s summit, titled “Cooperation in a Fragmented World,” will focus on the ongoing global crises and the call for bold collective action, including climate action.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we are at a point where reducing the world’s emissions is not enough to limit global warming to 1.5°C. We also need to actively remove CO₂ emissions from the air with carbon removal solutions. The IPCC estimates that direct air capture and storage alone needs to remove up to 310 billion tons of CO₂ by 2100.
At the WEF Annual Meeting, Climeworks intends to elevate the voice of the developing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) industry, representing direct air capture (DAC) towards world leaders and key industry players. To do so, we will take part in panels and events to underline DAC’s required role in the fight against global warming.
Climeworks' expectations for WEF Annual Meeting 2023
We are looking forward to meeting with global leaders already gathered in Switzerland to further advance the understanding of these technologies as a necessary tool for climate change mitigation in addition to emissions reductions, drive climate commitments and foster new as well as existing relationships.
For the developing CDR industry, cooperation across a wide range of stakeholders is vital to bring technologies such as DAC to scale. While the priority of climate mitigation should be rightly and importantly on emissions reductions, action on scaling CDR technologies like DAC should not be delayed. CDR solutions need to be ramped up today in order to be available at scale tomorrow. Both the private and public sectors have a crucial role to play in this.
At COP27, we already witnessed growing excitement around DAC and CDR, observing an increasing number of people and partnerships drawn to the industry, addressing key topics of the CDR scale-up journey: clear standards in measuring, reporting, and verification (MRV), the roles of the voluntary carbon market and compliance market in accelerating the deployment of DAC, as well as additional demand creation for CDR. In this context, we recently released our second industry snapshot, where we examine the increasing deployment of DAC technology, and the conditions necessary to further drive it. Therefore we’re optimistic that WEF will drive the CDR conversations even further.
Where to find us
Climeworks will be represented by Chief Climate Policy Officer Christoph Beuttler, Chief Commercial Officer Jan Huckfeldt, and Chief Marketing Officer Julie Gosalvez. Climeworks co-founder and co-CEO Christoph Gebald will also be present, as well as other leadership team members.
The highlights of their agendas include (the timing of the sessions given in CET):
Tuesday, 17 January:
12:00 - 14:00: “Accelerating the Carbon Removal Market” workshop. Christoph Beuttler will participate in this event organized by the BMW Foundation and Carbon Business Council.
Wednesday, 18 January:
15:00 – 18:00: Doconomy Stage of Impact. Julie Gosalvez will be interviewed at 17:25 at this event, which will be held at UBS, Promenade 48 in Davos.
Thursday, 19 January:
08:00 – 09:00: Tech for Scaling Positive Impact. Christoph Gebald will share the stage at the Microsoft café (Promenade 101, Davos) with Jean-Philippe Courtois, Executive VP and President, National Transformation Partnerships at Microsoft, to talk about climate change.
17:00 – 21:30: Green Accelerator Program. Christoph Beuttler will speak at this exclusive event about Climeworks and its scale-up roadmap at 19:00 at Hotel Europa in Davos.
Climeworks' contributions to the WEF Annual Meeting 2023 are still evolving – if you would like to engage with Climeworks at the Annual Meeting and explore collaboration opportunities together, please reach out to events@climeworks.com
About Climeworks
Climeworks empowers people and companies to fight global warming by offering carbon dioxide removal as a service via direct air capture (DAC) technology. At Orca, Climeworks’ DAC facility in Iceland, the CO2 is permanently removed from the air by capturing and geologically storing it for thousands of years with Climeworks’ storage partner Carbfix. Climeworks’ DAC facilities run exclusively on clean energy, and our modular CO2 collectors can be stacked to build machines of any capacity.
Founded by engineers Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher in 2009, Climeworks is on a journey to climate impact at scale. To do so, we strive to inspire 1 billion people to act and remove CO2 from the air. Climeworks is spear-heading the DAC industry globally, with the world’s largest DAC facility and storage installation in operation and a team of 300 Climeworkers determined to contribute to a net-zero future. Our growing customer base includes over 160 companies, including multinationals such as Microsoft, BCG, UBS or Swiss Re, as well as more than 18,000 individual Climate Pioneers.