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One of Microsoft’s big bets for the future of sustainability is starting to bear fruit.

Delicious carbonated fruit, that is.

Climeworks plant in Iceland for carbon capture

Climeworks' proposed “Mammoth” plant would take its carbon capture capacity from 4,000 CO2 tons per year to 36,000 tons.

Climeworks is one of Microsoft’s big green tech investments.

Still, it’s a drop in the ocean compared to the overall usage of fossil fuels.

Earth has survived worse, but humanity, perhaps not so much.

Climeworks' proposed Mammoth plant

Climeworks' proposed “Mammoth” plant would take its carbon capture capacity from 4,000 CO2 tons per year to 36,000 tons.

In any case, there are positive signs with regard to the fight against climate change.

This past week, Climeworksannouncedthat it received third-party scientific verification that its storage systems work.

It demonstrates we want to do the right things but also do them the right way."

Cloud servers

You canget involved with Climeworks yourselfas an individual, and purchase credits to offset your own carbon footprint.

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