{"id":595,"date":"2022-03-02T15:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/02\/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-announces-tens-of-millions-in-funding-for-climate-tech\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:27:48","slug":"chan-zuckerberg-initiative-announces-tens-of-millions-in-funding-for-climate-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/02\/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-announces-tens-of-millions-in-funding-for-climate-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announces tens of millions in funding for climate tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/2\/10\/22927245\/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-millions-funding-climate-tech-carbon-removal<\/a>
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the philanthropic organization founded by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged $44 million in funding for solutions to climate change today. Most of the money goes towards efforts to capture carbon dioxide building up to dangerous levels in the atmosphere and oceans. <\/p>\n

The climate crisis can only be tackled by putting a stop to planet-heating pollution. But most models for how to prevent catastrophic climate change include some form of atmospheric carbon dioxide removal since human activity has already resulted in enough pollution to do damage to the planet. <\/p>\n

The strategies have attracted billionaire backers like Zuckerberg and Bill Gates<\/a>, as well as tech companies like Microsoft<\/a> and Stripe<\/a>. Carbon removal technologies have recently received millions in funding from Big Tech, even as tech companies face scrutiny for how they exacerbate the climate crisis. <\/p>\n

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