This is huge good news. Two Swiss engineers who want to save the glaciers in their glorious Alps have figured out how to reverse climate change by mining the existing carbon in our air. This matters, because just reducing our emissions is not going to be enough to stop our climate changing. We also need to remove a lot of the carbon that we’ve already put into our air – and Climeworks is showing us how to do it, and we can all help.

“We capture CO2 from the atmosphere,” Christoph Beuttler, head of climate policy at Climeworks told de zeen this summer. “We’re mining the sky because there’s too much carbon in it. And it’s a sustainable resource.” Not only is it a solution to a problem – it’s about to become a new industry as we reshape our economy so it is sustainable and not destructive.