MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: (L-R) Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend the 2020 Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet at NASA Ames Research Center on November 03, 2019 in Mountain View, California. | Photo by Ian Tuttle/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize
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.
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.
The strategies have attracted billionaire backers like Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, as well as tech companies like M…
