Companies that suck planet-heating emissions from thin air ¡ª a process often decried as too costly and little more than science fiction ¡ª say they are gaining wider interest from governments and investors to help fix a ¡°code red¡± climate change crisis.
Three top direct-air-capture firms ¡ª Climeworks, Carbon Engineering and Global Thermostat ¡ª said they are increasingly hopeful governments could provide incentives to develop the fledgling industry, modeled on subsidies for solar power or electric cars.
Swiss-based Climeworks opened the world¡¯s largest direct-air-capture plant in early September in Iceland.
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