Bill Gates lists Climate KIC’s Climeworks on 2019 Breakthrough Technologies list

News 13 Mar 2019

Bill Gates was invited to be the first guest curator of the MIT Technology Review‘s 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Climeworks, supported by Climate KIC, was listed as one of three key players in ‘catching’ carbon dioxide from the air and storing it safely.

The article reports that “Zurich-based Climeworks’s direct air capture plant in Italy will produce methane from captured carbon dioxide and hydrogen, while a second plant in Switzerland will sell carbon dioxide to the soft-drinks industry.”

Read Bill Gates’ introduction to the Breakthrough Technologies list here.

This article first appeared on the EIT’s official website.