Swiss direct air capture (DAC) company Climeworks has entered a strategic partnership with Japan shipping group Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) – its first engagement in the maritime sector.
The collaboration will examine how DAC can support MOL’s long-term decarbonisation targets, including potential applications for both carbon removal and utilisation.
The two companies described the partnership as an early-stage effort to explore how negative emissions technologies could be applied within global shipping, which is responsible for roughly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The partnership will look at whether DAC technology can be used on board ships and how it might complement other low-carbon moves already under development in the sector.
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