ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher

Hey, it's Guy here. So there's been a lot of extreme weather making headlines this winter and spring. Where I live in California, we got hit with back to back to back to back endless atmospheric rivers. Causing flooding, mudslides, record snowfall. Meanwhile there were ice storms in Texas, tornadoes across the Midwest, and it's been so dry in Italy that some of the famous canals in Venice have begun to dry out. The United Nations has said that climate change is supercharging these types of extreme weather events, making them more common and more powerful.

And so in light of all these things happening, we thought it would be a good time to bring you my conversation from the spring of twenty twenty two with Jan Wurzbacher. Co-founder of Climeworks, Climeworks is a Swiss company that's building the world's largest direct air capture and storage facilities using technology that pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and stores it permanently underground. It's an incredibly daunting challenge. But Jan is hopeful that his company can be part of a larger solution, that might be able to help humanity combat climate change. Alright.

Here's the show. Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. So most everyone has heard the grim predictions about climate change, that in order to keep our planet from warming more than four degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, We have to reduce carbon emissions by more than half.

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