Kenyan startup Octavia Carbon is the Global South’s first direct air capture (DAC) company, designing, building, and soon deploying machines that directly capture CO2 from the atmosphere. Founded in March 2022, aimed at “reversing climate change”, Octavia Carbon is leveraging Kenya’s renewable energy, geology, and talent to deploy and scale DAC at a low cost. “We have partnered with Cella Mineral Storage, a carbon mineralisation company with operations in Kenya, to handle the CO2 storage phase of the project. The Kenyan Rift is rich in basalt formations which are natural reservoirs for CO2 storage. This eliminates the need for us to invest in capital and emissions intensive infrastructure to transport our CO2 to storage sites,” said Octavia Carbon founder Martin Freimüller.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 11, 2023 06:02 UTC