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May 11, 2022

Samsung, Chevron, Saudi Aramco pour $150m into carbon capture startup

Carbon Clean's round is the largest ever for point-of-source carbon capture and storage.


Freya Pratty

5 min read

Prateek Bumb and Aniruddha Sharma, cofounders of Carbon Clean.

If we want to keep global warming below 1.5C, we can only emit another 500 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, according to the UN's climate council — that’s around eight years’ worth at the current rate.

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Freya Pratty

Freya Pratty is a senior reporter and investigations lead at Sifted. Follow her on X , LinkedIn and Bluesky

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