Swiss carbon capture startup raises £64m

A Swiss startup has raised millions of pounds to fight climate change by capturing greenhouses gases in the air, in what the company said was the largest investment of its kind. Climeworks, based in Zurich, attracted £64m in a private funding round to ramp up its production of devices that take carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. Nearly half the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels is not absorbed in plants and the oceans, scientists have found, instead remaining airborne where it