ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Climeworks: Jan Wurzbacher
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz | Wondery
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
According to the 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world needs to cut carbon emissions drastically to avoid the worst effects of global warming. But that’s not all. In addition to reducing emissions, we also need to remove 6 to 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year by 2050.
This week on How I Built This Lab, Guy talks with Jan Wurzbacher, co-founder and CEO of Climeworks. They discuss how Jan and his team built the world’s largest direct air capture facility, which filters carbon dioxide from the air and stores it permanently underground. Plus, Jan’s optimistic vision of how humans can achieve the goal of reversing climate change.
This episode was produced by Chris Maccini, with music by Ramtin Arablouei.
Edited by John Isabella.
Our audio engineer was Maggie Luthar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:07.0 | Download the app today. |
| 0:09.0 | What if the greatest tragedy of your life was just covered up? |
| 0:12.0 | I have never seen anything like that before or after. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the story of the worst marine-on-marine friendly fire in modern history. |
| 0:20.0 | A story kept from the public. |
| 0:22.0 | It's like, what did y'all have to hide? |
| 0:24.0 | Listen to NPR's embedded podcast and its latest series, taking cover. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, it's Guy here. |
| 0:32.0 | There's been a lot of extreme weather making headlines this winter and spring. |
| 0:36.0 | Where I live in California, we got hit with back to back to back to back to my endless atmospheric rivers, |
| 0:42.0 | causing flooding, mudslides, record snowfall. |
| 0:46.0 | Meanwhile, there are ice storms in Texas, tornadoes across the Midwest, and it's been so dry in Italy |
| 0:52.0 | that some of the famous canals and Venice have begun to dry out. |
| 0:55.0 | The United Nations has said that climate change is super-charging these types of extreme weather events, |
| 1:01.0 | making them more common and more powerful. |
| 1:04.0 | And so, in light of all these things happening, we thought it would be a good time to bring you my conversation |
| 1:08.0 | from the spring of 2022 with Jan Vertsbacher, co-founder of Climworks. |
| 1:13.0 | Climworks is a Swiss company that's building the world's largest direct-air capture and storage facilities |
| 1:19.0 | using technology that pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and stores it permanently underground. |
| 1:26.0 | It's an incredibly daunting challenge, but Jan is hopeful that his company can be part of a larger solution |
| 1:33.0 | that might be able to help humanity combat climate change. |
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