Christoph Gebald is the co-founder and co-CEO of Climeworks, one of the leading companies in direct air capture, based in Switzerland. Climeworks focuses on capturing CO2 from the air which, when combined with storage enables permanent removal from the atmosphere. With more than 15 years of experience in CO2 capture from the air, he is considered by his peers as an expert in this growing and important industry.
He is a mechanical engineer by training, holding a master’s degree with distinction and a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich. During his Ph.D., Christoph researched direct air capture technologies and founded Climeworks on this basis together with Jan Wurzbacher in 2009.
As co-CEO, Christoph oversees the commercial, legal, marketing, and staffing side of the business. Christoph believes that to fight climate change and take meaningful action, a portfolio of solutions is needed to reach global climate targets.
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Many climate tech, like renewable energy, EVs or LED light bulbs, follow a declining cost curves as they innovate, improve, and scale, lowering the cost of adoption and deployment over time. However, harder-to-scale solutions like carbon capture or green hydrogen face challenges such as regulatory hurdles and raw material constraints. Reducing their deployment cost requires investment and innovation, essential for making such solutions affordable globally. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for policymakers, investors, businesses and technopreneurs as they navigate the landscape of technological progress and determine which innovations are most likely to hold the keys to a net-zero future.
Through a thoughtful exchange of perspectives, this session aims to identify strategies for overcoming these challenges and accelerating the development and deployment of solutions.
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