Climeworks says world's 'first' commercial-scale atmospheric carbon capture plant on track for 2016 launch

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Swiss company announces plans for industrial-scale plant that will sell captured carbon to a local greenhouse

The world's "first industrial-scale plant" for capturing carbon from the atmosphere will be operational by 2016, ETH spin-off company Climeworks AG announced last week. The company says the plant, which...

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