The world’s biggest carbon removal factory just opened in Iceland

By the end of the year, Climeworks’ plant will have the capacity to capture around 36,000 tons of CO2 per year.

In 2021, the first large-scale carbon removal plant starting sucking CO2 from the air in a remote corner of Iceland. Now Climeworks, the company behind it, has opened a version that’s 10 times larger. It’s the biggest of its kind in the world.