Direct Air Capture of CO2 Is Suddenly a Carbon Offset Option
Scientific American 2 Is Suddenly a Carbon Offset Option Canada’s largest company is funding machines that suck CO 2 from the atmosphere to offset its own emissions Advertisement The online retail platform Shopify, Canada’s most valuable company, yesterday inked a deal to suck out of the atmosphere 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and store it permanently underground. Shopify Inc.’s agreement is the largest publicly announced corporate purchase of direct air capture, or DAC, for carbon offsets, according to Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm seeking to commercialize the nascent cli...
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