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A BLICK reader discovered Greta and her father Svante at the train station in Wetzikon ZH.
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The climate icon visited a facility of the Swiss company Climeworks.
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Greta Thunberg with Climeworks founder Jan Wurzbacher.
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The climate icon asked many questions about the technology that the company uses to filter CO2 from the air.
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The purple jacket, the wool hat, the face in worry lines: Greta Thunberg (17) is easy to recognize. However, a BLICK reader could hardly believe that the climate icon ran into him on Tuesday in the middle of Wetzikon ZH station. The reason: Thunberg visited the Zurich company “Climeworks” for a BBC documentary.
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“We were surprised by the visit ourselves,” says Climeworks spokeswoman Louise Charles. “The BBC team only contacted us on Friday.”
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Then everything went quickly. The meeting point at the «KEZO» was at 10 am on Tuesday morning. The innovative company Climeworks obtains waste heat, i.e. energy, from the Zurich Oberland waste disposal system in order to operate its own plants. With the systems, Climeworks filters CO2 from the air. A beacon of hope in the fight against climate change.
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«We gave her a tour»
“Greta was very interested and asked very good questions,” spokeswoman Charles says about the spontaneous visit of the famous environmental activist, who is looking at climate solutions for the documentary around the world. “We gave her a tour and told how the technology works.”
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Climeworks already operates 14 plants across Europe that can fish several thousand tons of CO2 from the air each year. Ten years ago, in the experimental laboratory, it was only a few milligrams, explains spokeswoman Charles. «The challenge now is to develop ourselves in a similar way. It’s ambitious, but it can be done. »
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Thunberg was accompanied by father Svante
Greta, who does not fly to avoid CO2 and lives vegan, was impressed by the Swiss innovation. “Like Climeworks, she believes that you need a portfolio of many solutions.” But she also asked critical questions. For example, how much energy Climeworks need to operate the plants. “But then she also found that it made sense to have both: planting natural solutions like trees and technical solutions like ours.”
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Greta was accompanied not only by a five-person film crew, but also, as always, by her father Svante (50). Charles: “The two have a very nice relationship.”
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But there was not much time for personal matters. The climatic icon at Climeworks was just under four hours, and the visit was efficiently organized by production. The film crew had even taken care of the vegan lunch beforehand.
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